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Wednesday 1 June 2011

What next?! - Five Newlyn Harbour Commissioners leave!

It would appear that, following a meeting this morning, a total of five commissioner places on the board are now vacant after a shakeup of the present team of 12 including the vice-chairman, Ray Tovey and Dave Mundy leave. Other members appear to have left their posts well ahead of their allotted term of service. Official confirmation yet to be given from the Chief Executive.

Great British Menu - the fish final - big on Cornish fish.

It's the finals for the fish course for the Great British Menu. Twenty four of the country's top chefs have been competing for a place to cook at the People's Banquet - a magnificent street party to be held at the historic Leadenhall Market. Now only eight chefs remain and they are all fighting to get one of their courses on the menu. In this episode, they cook their fish dishes for the Great British Menu judges and a fourth member who will help them decide who will go through.

Paul Ainsworth's fish dish - Cornish Sardines - Oysters and Bass.

Paul Ainsworth and Aktar Islam slugged it out for the final of the Great British menu's fish dish. Despite coming second Paul, head chef at the No6 restaurant in Padstow, is judged by Oliver Peyton to be giving Rick Stein some serious competition in the land of the fish restaurant in Cornwall. His fish dish consisted of Cornish Sardines, oysters and bass presented a la beach.........

Aktar Islam's Bass and spicy coconut sauce.

while Aktar opted for a steamed bass with a spicy coconut sauce and soft-shelled crab in batter that almost achieved a 100% score.

“We need to draw people’s attention to this scandalous waste”

Thi is the latest move from HFW and his discards campaign - fishermen will need to make sure that while there may be consensus over stopping discards the means by which new measures are implemented will be crucial - and potentially damaging to many.

Quoted directly from a re-vamped FishFight web site that is now in 11 languages: "Discarding is a scandalous waste of a valuable and limited food resource. Everyone in Europe needs to get involved to end the practice". The Europe-wide Fish Fight campaign kicks off today with a grand event outside the EU Parliament Building in Brussels.

Why is Fish Fight launching a European Campaign?

I think the issue of discard is now very much on the public agenda in the UK. It’s been debated in Parliament and our Government has now passed a motion committing to help end the practice. There’s no doubt that this is the result of the mounting public awareness that followed directly from the Fish Fight series on Channel 4, and the accompanying campaign.

But in other European countries the problem is still not widely understood, or even known about. We need key public figures in those countries to take up the campaign and draw people’s attention to this scandalous waste of a valuable and limited food resource. That’s why we’re launching our campaign across Europe and launching websites in eleven other languages across Europe; French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Flemish, Greek, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese.

On Tuesday May 31st Fish Fight Europe will kick off with a grand event outside the EU Parliament Building in Brussels. We really hope to see as many people as possible down there. All details can be found below. The future of all European fish stocks is at stake, so everyone in Europe who would like their children and grandchildren to eat this great food needs to get involved.

Hugh Fearnley -Whittingstall

Tuesday 31 May 2011

Tues morning.

Always good to see a smattering of JDs with the inshore trawlers.......

and signs that things are on the move, herring appear in numbers with the mackerel hand liners......

big beamer, big mouth, big cod........

do I hear 7?.........

time to check over the ring net in readiness for the start of the new Cornish Sardine season aboard the White Heather.......

doing his bit for the planet, the Harvest rubbish Reaper......

let go the ends and bound for the Scillys......

Treen heads back to the pontoons......

Mr Cripps would like to see more practical hooks on the landing jibs, the hooks are just too awkward to use with strops.........

looks like there's a few day's work in the offing with the arrival of the new quay fenders.

Monday 30 May 2011

SlowFish - Sanjay Kumar's Genoan odyssey in pictures.

Time for Westcountry chef, Sanjay Kumar get some background reading done on the CFP, the scourge of UK fishermen, before meeting some of the key players......

like the chance for a one-to-one with the main lady herself, Maria Damanaki and some time for Sanjay to put the case for the fishermen of Cornwall........