Monday's busy market

End-to-end with fish this morning...

and sure signs of summers as the boxes of JDs begin to mount in number week on week...

that big, bad bass man Cap'n Cod put ashore 8 boxes of beautiful fish after an intense weekend's fishing...

while some of the netters are still totally turboting...

along with a few of the UK's most sustainable fish, the happy hake...

yet another scalloper this time the Katy May is in town all the way from Brixham...

classic hull graces the port.

Tales of Irish fishing bygone times - what about the discards!

A collection of Old fishing films from mark hardy on Vimeo.

Saturday sees a sunnyish start to the season for scallops and sails

Sailing day for the netters like the Ajax making her way to the Low Lee buoy...

there's a drastic change of colour for the Ocean Pride...

looking very smart though...

in the morning sun...

time for the port's oldest inhabitant to get...

some summer love...

as the bigger yachts pour into the marina berths heralding the start of the serious sailing season...

joining the local fleet are the seasonal scallopers... 

many from the next port up the line...

Falmouth...

there's a new batch of boxes waiting to go aboard the big netter Stelissa.

Swanage by the sea

Sails and casting from the beach, classic seaside fun in Swanage...

when it's not sunny enough for the deckchairs to come out to play.

Work in progress

A few days in Swanage mean the chance to work on the Cornish sardines painting.

Cork Fisherman Calls For Seal Cull - YoughalOnline.com

Fisherman Barry Clohessy from Youghal, Co Cork, Ireland is outraged with the Department of Marine for ignoring the seal damage to his livelihood. Seals are a protected species in this country but the damage they are doing to nets and the living of the local fishermen is shocking.

Since 2007 Salmon fishing has been banned in these parts because stocks were down. Now the seals that used to feed on the salmon in the nets are now moving inshore and attacking the monkfish caught in the nets.

"The seals are ruining inshore fishing," says Barry "they are feeding on monkfish, pollack and any kind of whitefish because of the ban on salmon fishing. The seals used to feed on the salmon in the nets but it wasn't so bad then, as there were other fish in the sea, so to speak."

With a lot of the fish being eaten by seals these days, most fishermen are left with no choice but to fish for lobsters, which has lead to the drop in prices where at one time they were getting €17 a kilo now they are only getting €10!" Barry adds "I reckon they should be a cull on the seals, like they do in other countries, in my mind that is the only solution. If I were a farmer and a dog attacked my herd I would have a right to shoot the dog but we are not allowed to touch the seals as they are protected. How is a man to feed his family?"

Out of the 51 monkfish that Barry caught that day, only 7 were whole while the remaining had only their heads left because of the seals that ravaged their bodies.

Video: Michael Hussey

Tuesday's market full of fine fish #eatmorefish

Ene-to-end with fish this morning...

great shot of ray from the Shiralee, nice one Plugger :-)...

just a few of the 1000kg of turbot from the Stelissa...

all putting smiles on the faces of the buyers, Ryan in charge of selling...

it's Dory time...

ring-a-ding ling...

and best bass from the Cynthia...

cracking start to the day as the boats queue for ice...

not such a common site, Spanish longline picked up by a beamer...

aftermath of the Pirates on the Prom...

looks like the Cider took a hamering!