Rare fish on Newlyn's busy fish market this morning.

With the clocks having sprung forwards last weekend and a big Spring tide...

morning market visits are just as dark as they were a month or so ago...

not that the buyers would notice on a busy auction floor...

especially when there has been no fish up for sale since last Thursday....

so the two net boats, Amanda of Ladram....

and Govenek of Ladram...

along with the Scottish prawn trawler Revival should enjoy high prices for their big white fish landings...

nice box of undulate ray...

the only beam trawler to land, the Trevessa IV had a good selection of flats like these brill and turbot...

while the prawn trawler, Asteria bagged a few good lifts of decent green (cod) in her trip...

mixing up the colourful fish, the netter Amanda of Ladram landed a rare silver hake Merluccius albidus...

 sometimes known as the offshore hake, offshore silver hake, or offshore whiting...

not to be confused with the much more common European Hake and staple diet of the Cornish hake netting fleet, Merluccius merluccius...

or the unavoidable haddock favoured by just about any boat that dips a net in the water in the Western Approaches...

young Roger Nowell's eyes would be popping of he saw the ttwenty boxes of good John Dory that the Revival put ashore from his trip way west of the Scillys - a sign of things to come for the Imogen III he would hope...

favourite for the beam trawlers before swinging quota cuts made them not so targettable, Dover sole...

nice run of red mullet for the big beamer, Trevessa IV... 

it seems that JDs are all over the prawn grounds...

not so thick on the ground are mackerel though many of the boats would have stayed in harbour over the break...

a busy start to the week...

the pythonesque look of the ling...

inshore gurnards tend to be red...

while the offshore boats pick up the less colourful grey variety...

Brackan on the Spirited Lady managed a good shot of megrims which have been making excellent money while the beam trawl fleet have targeted cuttlefish over the last six months...

still not the warmest of mornings...

though that doesn't seem to have done anything to deter a fresh growth of lawn on the as yet, to be replaced, market roof...

first light...

 at high water...

finds the Amanda with a fresh supply of boxes ready to go aboard...

the Revival showing her allegiance to Crown & Country...

the deck and rails of the mini-beamer were modified to allow for the extra width of her beam trawls on such a confined deck area...

the Mair at rest...

evidence of a day spent mending on the quay alongside the big Scottish prawn boats...

despite the weather and big tides which make inshore trawling very dangerous should the boat come 'tight' on the bottom, New Venture managed a short trip to land this morning...

half the fleet are in port and waiting to sail today...

while the Asteria should be away tomorrow having steamed for nine hours with a gale-force wind beam on to make it back to Newlyn from the prawn grounds west of the Scillys...

more work for the harbour boys...

a watery sun greets the day...

Sid's Karen of Ladram is all set for the next tide...

she's just been fired up on a chilly morn...

the raven flies...

choppy waters las the Jubilee Pool a mile across the bay.

No Monday market in Newlyn.

Every day is a work day for someone down the quay and Bank Holiday Monday is no different from any other Monday for many...

back in port, the Amanda of Ladram has her fish on the market for tomorrow's auction...

as does Alistair's Asteria...

the second of the Scottish prawn boats to arrive for this year's season is the Revival...

a fresh set of boxes is ready to go back aboard the Amanda...

the port's next crabber has a new shed...

twin-rigging for prawns with heavy groundropes aboard the Asteria...

happy in his work mending, trawls require constant attention to deprive them of any tears or rips, small or large through which prawns or fish might escape...

brand new set of pots ready for a career at sea...

the port's latest crab boat for the Rowse family on the hard.

One year away from the divorce court.

 The referendum caused the country, counties, family, friends and workmates to vote a simple 'Yes' or "No' on an issue with so many facets and so many unknowns that neither Leave or Remain could provide straightforward answers. Like an arranged marriage without the getting to know, date, engagement and then a wedding to tie up the nuptials the UK is now headed off to the divorce court hoping to keep at least 50% of what it had in the marriage. 

Fishing is undoubtedly one of the UK's chattels that on paper could do without.  Looked at purely on the basis of financial value,  many decent sized companies employ more people and produce more wealth than the fishing industry in its entirety.

Look at the industry as a part of the UK's maritime, cultural and national identity and its value - like the legacy of the aristocracy, great buildings and monuments built on the back of an empire - its value is not so easy to calculate.

Margaret Evans from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) recently paid Nelwyn a visit as the country was only days away from marking the countdown with 365 days to go to the divorce date.

She found herself exploring the irony that despite being in a region that has received grants amounting to 10% of the entire EU budget many wanted a divorce that would cut themselves off from that financial support in the future.

"More than two decades later, with Britain's official exit date from the European Union now just under a year away, Cornish fishermen are on the verge of escaping what many of them call the ill-founded and tyrannical rule of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)."

"Not by our local boats, but because we're being given scraps by Brussels, and we've seen the boats from France and Belgium come and take what they can take out of our own waters."

The EU's complicated manner of deciding fish quotas for its members sees nearly 60 per cent of the fish caught in the waters around Britain being landed by boats from other EU countries. 

Cornish fishermen, for example, are limited to eight per cent of the cod quota in their own waters, while the French can catch 73 per cent."

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Margaret Evans

Europe correspondent

Margaret Evans is a correspondent based in the CBC News London bureau. A veteran conflict reporter, Evans has covered civil wars and strife in Angola, Chad and Sudan, as well as the myriad battlefields of the Middle East.