Mid-week market

The landings board is looking very quiet for the rest of the week...

a big trip from the AA of 300 boxes...

including some fish missing from the market for a while like these ray...

a pair of tubs always look good...

while these stripey chaps make great alternatives to any trout recipe...

plenty more of these in the sea...

and these green chaps too...

while black is the colour of money at this time of year for some of the boats...

it won't be long before she heads back to sea again...

along with the other big boats in the beamer fleet...

further down the quay the fixed gear boats at rest...

and hoping for some more clement weather over the next tide.

Gull's-eye view of the Ajax leaving Newlyn.

Footage courtesy of Vistasoar - remote aerial imaging specialists.

Hake at the #TurksHead, Penzance

From the Specials Board at the Turk's Head, Chapel Street - blackened hake with a light creamy chowder sauce - great dish using the best in Newlyn hake. The pheasant was excellent as well - all served with a huge smile thanks to Maria.

Haddock or Cod?

The unmistakable thumbprint associated with haddock...

and the speckled skin of a cod - perhaps hybrid of some sort - caddock or hod?

Cefas Endeavour at work

After steaming down formn the English Channel the Cefas Endeavour has taken up station off Land's End...

though it's not the best place to be carrying out survey work...

as she transits both the South and North bound lanes of the Traffic Separation Scheme!

Sole searching

Saturday afternoon and it looked like a mini Dutch invasion force are on the way to 'the channel' - which is how Newlyn fishermen refer to the Bristol Channel of course.

First Monday market of 2015 and there's plenty of fish for all.

The new arrivals and departures board for the boats that spend more than a day at sea is getting busier...

netted monk from the New Harmony on the market...

with a solitary JD in a box...

there's plenty of monk on the ground these days...

and even the megrims are showing up well in the catch logs for the beam trawlers working the deeper water...

filling the market...

not sure what kind of frog though...

but these bass are as fresh as they come - check out those reddest of red gills...

contrasted with the blackest of black cuttlefish...

a huge shot of codling...

the marks left by gillnet on a fish...

the Ajax's hake keep an eye on the price as the auction starts...

with the buyers paying over £4 a kilo for the bigger sizes...

outside the sun has yet to stir itself...

as the Billy Rowney comes alongside the quay...

with a 300 box trip on board.