2017 Fishermen of the World Film Festival in France.

The 9th edition of the International Festival of Fishing Film of the World will take place from 13 to 19th March in Lorient, Larmor-Plage, Ploemeur, Riantec, Lanester and Vannes.

More than 100 films were entered, 32 films selected including 14 in competition for the feature and short film awards. Recently released films, unprecedented, which are worthy of investigation.

Documentary filmmaker, Severine Vermersch has collected a range of amateur films shot by fishermen and sailors who wanted to show the world what life at sea was like have been edited together

For its 9th edition, the Festival once again fulfills its mission to carry a cinema of quality, committed to the people of the sea, far from the dominant discourses. A humanistic festival and resolutely optimistic in these troubled times.

2017 Festival Poster

For the success of this event, we need a committed and voluntary crew!

A call for volunteers is launched on February 27 at 1 pm, Allende city, Lorient, for an information meeting. © Le Télégramme

For full information visit the festival's website.

UK fishermen may not win 'waters back' after Brexit, EU memo reveals

Document obtained by the Guardian states existing quotas will remain despite promises made by leave campaigners...

It could be, 'Bollocks to the UK'

The hopes of British fishermen that the UK can win its “waters back” post-Brexit are expected to be dashed by the European parliament, despite the campaign promises of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, a leaked EU document reveals.

MEPs have drafted seven provisions to be included in Britain’s “exit agreement”, including the stipulation that there will be “no increase to the UK’s share of fishing opportunities for jointly fished stocks (maintaining the existing quota distribution in UK and EU waters)”.

The document, obtained by the Guardian, adds that in order for the UK and EU to keep to commitments on sustainable fishing contained within the United Nations stocks agreement. “It is difficult to see any alternative to the continued application of the common fisheries policy,” it says.

Read the full story in the Guardian Online here:

All quiet on the western front.

Rowse crabber, Emma Louise heads towards the gaps last night just before the...

Penlee lifeboat, Ivan Ellen streaks away...

towards the Mount, only to be stood up by the SAR helicopter in a no-show for the joint night exercise, worse things have happened on Valentine's day of course...

just think back three years to the day when the weather was somewhat inclement as the last (it turned out) of ten severe storms over four months rampaged its way across the south west and tore through Mount's Bay...

things were quiet enough this morning in the harbour...

with a market devoid of fish...

and the many of the fleet...

waiting for their crews to arrive...

to take ice...

looks like Roger has nearly finished his John Dory trawl...

P.J. Tonkin's wet fish shop delivery - must be the freshest fish in the UK - from market to shop, less than 25 yards!

Be part of Newlyn community history!

The working port of Newlyn

Next week you can help record a piece of Newlyn history - to take part, head for Newlyn Gallery next Tuesday or Thursday morning.

The Anthology of Rural Life is a collaborative photographic project whose intention is to produce a record of life in rural communities across Europe. So far work has been produced in Cornwall, south west Finland and the Italian Alps with new work being planned for eastern Poland in July 2017.

100 years ago, fishermen and their wives worked closely with Stanhope Forbes to record a way of life on canvas.

We have been invited to work in the Newlyn Gallery as part of their Transitions programme. The dates for this are the 20th – 24th February 2017.

As part of our residency with the Transitions programme we would like to invite 3 groups of individuals from the local community into the Newlyn Gallery on Tuesday 21st, Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th of February between 10am and 12 am. There will be an opportunity to view the exhibition of ARL work, to speak to the photographers, discuss the work on show and to get involved with editing a journal of the work which can be taken away and kept by the participants.

Before the Mousehole road - a bit of history captured in paint

We are very aware of the history of the involvement between artists and the Newlyn community which goes back to the Newlyn School of Painting of the late nineteenth century. It seems apt and appropriate to acknowledge that history with this contemporary community project.


The ARL’s involvement with the Newlyn Gallery will allow for the interaction of members of the contemporary fishing community with a project that documents rural life now. The intention will be realised through discussion about the work within the gallery and the physical engagement of working with photographs (editing, sequencing and binding) which will then be taken back into the Newlyn community.

Ideally we would like to have representatives from three distinct, but related groups:

• Retired fishermen and/or wives of retired fishermen
• Those involved in the contemporary fishing industry
• Women from the local Newlyn community (perhaps wives of working fishermen)

Colin Robins, Oliver Udy

The project has involved working in partnership with, amongst others, the Cornish Studies Archive, Arts Council England, SARKA (the Finnish National Museum of Rural Life), Plymouth University, the Institute of Contemporary Photography, Milan and the University of Life Sciences in Warsaw.

St Georges slays port record!

Stevenson's top beam trawler, St Georges smashed the port record this morning by over £8,000...

with a huge trip that included one ton of number 1 megrim soles at around £7.00 a kilo...

which of course means smiles all round and a celebratory drink for relief skipper and chief engineer Juicy standing in for skipper Billy Worth enjoying a quiet coca cola and some R&R in the warm environs of local hostelry, the Swordfish. Well done boys!

Amazing underwater footage of handlining for mackerel off Falmouth.

Commercial handline fishing for mackerel - Working my boat Stargazy Pie PZ849 off the Cornish Coast. 

Filmed during one cold February late afternoon out from Falmouth. Despite cloudy water from a strong blow and ground sea a few days prior, you can clearly see mackerel striking in a feed frenzy - time and time again! You can even hear them hitting the line if the volume is up.

I move from shoal to shoal taking two or three strings from each - leaving plenty for other 'predators'.

Bass fishing guidance

If you fish for bass commercially or recreation you will need to comply with the rules for:

• where you can catch bass
• how much bass you can catch
• the minimum size you can keep

Contents

1. Where commercial bass fishing is permanently closed
2. Where commercial bass fishing is allowed (subject to restrictions)
3. Track Records and authorisation
4. Summary of commercial catch limits
5. Bass and the landing obligation
6. Pelagic landing obligation
7. Demersal landing obligation
8. Recreational fishing for bass
9. Minimum Conservation Reference Size (MCRS)
10. Further information

Published 31 January 2017

Don't forget - any tagged bass ARE EXEMPT from the regulations - they are wanted whole for research!