It's a full-on #FishyFriday

The making tide will soon have this fast inshore boat afloat...

and melt the iceberg this gull is stood on...

a bust #FishyFriday market again...

as a spring tide has just passed it is all trawl, inshore trawl and beam trawl fish today...

with some of the buyers doing some serious poses...

while Falfish's Edwin does his famed elephant impersonation ...

Don is always happy to avail himself of a few JDs...

while Paul on the Sapphire II is Mr Monk today...

and a smattering of Dovers thrown in...

while a handful of hake managed to swim low enough to get below the headline of his beam trawl...

best of the bass from the Boy...

and 50 shades of gray mullet from the Victory...

just a few of the black-bellied monk landed from the Scottish prawner, Replenish...

pristine line-caught pollack showing off their bright eyes and blood-red gills - this is fresh #FishyFriday fish at its best...

Nigel sneaked a few JDs in the last haul...

and so did skipper Tom...

fish waits for no man...

small is beautiful...

bigger is better...

and 90% of scallops sold in this country are caught by boats like this, the Pamela Jill...

handrails in a harbour?

Cornish fishermen doing their bit for #WorldOceansDay

  

When it comes to looking after the Atlantic Ocean, Newlyn fishermen, many of whom fish singlehanded a few miles from the shore using handlines and poles fish for ...

top quality fish like these line caught bass...

line caught pollack...

or on bigger boats, line caught tuna...

and MSC Certified hake using extra large meshes...

Just part of the two one-ton bags of rubbish from the Crystal Sea's last trip!

many, like skipper David Stevens and his crew take the time and trouble to put ashore bags of rubbish at the end of every trip - all doing their bit for #WorldOceansDay!

Skipper ran vessel aground Five men were rescued – and one arrested

Looks like the boat is aground on the west bank - not the Tiger's Tail notorious shifting bank that has caught out so many over the years.

Skipper runs his vessel aground, five men were rescued – and one arrested – after the Corentine ran aground near Fleetwood Docks in the early hours of June 7, 2016. The Corentine got stuck on a sandbank known locally as Tiger’s Tail on its way out of the docks and, although it was leaning to port, there was no real danger of overturning. 

RNLI volunteers launched from the town’s lifeboat station at around 2.20 a.m., collecting the men and returning to shore. Police arrested the skipper, a 45-year-old man from York, on suspicion of being drunk in charge at the helm, being over the prescribed limit of alcohol. Due to the concern about the fuel, the RNLI crew made sure the crew switched all the valves off. The volunteers remained on standby to refloat the stricken ship at high tide, as long as a new skipper can be found. The skipper remained in custody, and was due to be questioned by officers.

Story courtesy of VesselTracker News.

Traditional Tuesday.

Big tide means beam trawlers and inshore trawlers only...

and a handful of inshore net boats like the New Harmony from Helford...

young Roger has been out chasing his JDs...

and even Tom tried to muscle in on the act...

proper haddock...

the market was knee-deep in fish one end...

with a smattering of summer favourites - big, fat, juicy grey mullet...

all getting the Cefas treatment...

and a handful of bass made it to the auction floor...

three kinds of ray on offer...

and some cracking pollack from a couple of Newquay boats testing the market...

cold enough in the mackerel fridge...

while outside it's a misty morn...

which no doubt makes the visiting Scottish boats feel at home...

as the Bracoden makes her way to the gaps...

looks like ASV Thomas has finished his work off the Scillys...

that's port side almost completed

coming alongside...

the fishing industry is tough, so, like many others, is entirely dependent on immigrant workers...

the boats even fish for litter...

even the barrels came two-by-two...

landing frozen langoustine this morning...

which involves some nifty footwork and a roll of clingfilm...

under the watchful eye of skipper Zander...

swinging a pallet of frozen fish ashore at a time...

bringing in the papers, the morning routine, unchanged at Baron's newsagents for half a century.

#FishyFriday's film

Click on the picture to watch the film.

Once upon a time, Milford Haven was a thriving harbour with busy fishing industry as the late 1920s footage included in this film indicates. But now, despite the gruelling conditions faced by the trawlermen, the industry, as far as small scale ventures is concerned, is in decline and the crew and owners of the ‘Picton Sea Eagle’ may soon be history. Richard Watkins, the director/producer, referred to this film as an allegory of Wales and its people – they just about survive.

The new breed of super-efficient trawlers, the oil boom at Milford Haven and the town’s perceived lack of interest in its fishing industry are what have done for them, so agree the managers and fishermen of the small scale trawler shown in this film. Documentary-maker, Richard Watkins, from Swansea, spent 2-3 weeks at sea with the fishermen, with the blessing of the owners – Norrard Trawlers – who welcomed a film that would highlight their predicament. Watkins included the 1920s film ‘Trawling out of Swansea on the Tenby Castle’ which was shot by Francis Worsley, a BBC radio producer who was living in Wales at the time (he became famous as the producer of the ITMA radio series during the Second World War).

Thursday's BFI fishing film archive.

The Marela was built in 1980 as a two berth cabin 24ft Tamar 2000 boat and is used primarily as a fishing vessel. It returns to Looe Harbour via the mouth of the Looe River. Looe is and has always been primarily a fishing town, although today its main source of income is from the tourist trade. Its fishing registration is FY192.

Wednesday's BFI fishing film archive.

The Cornish pilchard fishing industry is an ancient source of income for Cornwall and the South West with Penzance and Newlyn as the main ports. The fish were salted and sold in vast quantities during the 19th Century. With the overfishing of predator fish small pelagic fish populations are returning and a successful marketing campaign to promote Cornish sardines rather than the old-fashioned pilchard has ensured the industry’s survival.

The rebranding of pilchards to ‘Cornish sardines’ make them popular today and see them back on the menus of many a celebrity chef’s restaurant. First rebranded in 1996 by Nick Howell, the then Chairman of the Cornish Sardine Management Association, the name is now under the EU Protected Names Scheme. The UK joined the EU Common Fisheries Policy in 1974 and the industry is managed through a system of quotas set annually.