Trigging in the Helford.

Coming your way soon - MMO Marine plans latest news!

The Marine Management Organisation is starting the next phase of marine plans, developing plans for the North East, North West, South East and South West. Marine plans guide what happens in the marine area, making sure activities take place at the right time and in the right place, enabling sustainable growth.

We would like to invite you to one of our marine planning events taking place the week beginning Monday 11 April.

The events are an introduction to marine planning, for you to meet your local marine planner and to find out more about what marine planning involves, and how you can get involved. We will also be demonstrating ourMarine Information System and the evidence base where you can view some of the evidence we have already gathered for your area. 

The events are open sessions, including a number of scheduled presentations on marine planning. These will be held hourly, beginning at the start times shown below.

As part of the events you will also be able to find out more about our consultations on the Statement of Public Participation and the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report. The Statement of Participation includes details on how and when and to whom we will engage with through the marine planning process. The Sustainability Appraisal assesses the social, economic and environmental impacts of a marine plan. To find out more about these,please read our latest newsletter.

To find out more details and to register please click on your area below.

South West: 

• Falmouth: 11 April, 12 to 3pm, National Maritime Museum, TR11 3QY 
• Plymouth: 12 April, 1 to 4pm , Plymouth City Council Guildhall, PL1 2AA (hosted by Tamar Estuary Consultative Forum) 
• Bideford: 13 April, 1 to 4pm Caddsdown Business Support Centre, EX39 3DX 
• Weston-Super-Mare: 14 April, 9am to 12pm, Weston College, BS23 2AL

It's perfect weather for Good #FishyFriday!

All the way from Weymouth...

sailing day for two of the fleet...

in almost flat calm conditions...

the boys like to get together for a bit of yarn every morning.

Eggceptionally fresh fish on the last market before Easter.

Busy enough market this morning with a mix of beam and inshore trawl along with gill net and handline fish on the market...

perfect for family feeds, whiting make great fuss-free fillets...

while the Imogen III's Dovers are sure to delight...

or maybe some lush lemons from Tom on the Harvest Reaper...

or a few of the Lisa's jolly John Dory...

there would have been some huge monk cheeks on this guy, maybe the guys eat them for breakfast?...

plenty more where they came from...

glistening example of the freshest ray...

and that oh-so-miserable fish the turbot...

row after row...

of the finest MSC Certified Cornish hake...

and just the one solitary bream...

more than enough to keep Edwin and the other buyers ...

eggstatic over the chance to buy such great fish...

the boat that put the red in red gurnard...

all in the name...

forklifts do battle first thing...

miniature Jackson Pollacks...

and nature's answer to the same genre...

cracking whiting...

the first week for the inshore guys to get their pots in the water after the winter storms have passed...

and head out to sea...

taking it easy on the tug Tactow...

even the boat's bike is in corporate colours...

local twitchers hot on the trail of a Glaucus gull in the harbour...

Glaucous Gull still Newlyn Harbour @CornwallBirding pic.twitter.com/HFGeAtF8Nl

— Thomas Chinnick (@twitch150) March 24, 2016

little and large...

the 43m Belgian beam trawler Jasmine...

heads back out to sea past the long lens of the twitchers...

and drops her derricks...

as she passes the Mount...

looks like there is need of some serious amounts of electricity down on the deck of the boat...

as the new gantry is built...

back to more traditional wood on the Galilee...

might make a great fish restaurant?

Belgian beam trawler, Jasmine Z483 bound away.

The 46m Belgian beam trawler Jasmine Z483 leaves Newlyn bound for another trip.

Supermoon ce soir.

Heading for home in the first week of her 2016 season, the Scillonian III...

Jasmine, the biggest of the Belgian beamers...

 to land in the port this year...

will be away again in the morning...

layers of heavy twine net act as 'chafers' to prevent the lower end of the stocking and cod end form chaffing out on the seabed...

blue light district in the Jasmine's wheeelhouse...

another night's work for th boys on the Lisa...

as a huge moon rises over the land away in the east...

the St Georges is all set for sea in the morning.

St Georges landing in Newlyn

Unspoken, save for a few words, six crew demonstrate what it takes to land 200+ boxes of fish in twenty minutes. 

In many walks of life when you don't pull your weight you can often get away with it - in fishing, crews like to make life easier for one another - if you don't do your job everybody suffers - you included.

After landing the St Georges will overhaul both trawls, give the skipper and crew one night ashore before sailing in the morning to land next week.