So where is the Promised Land?

Checking out the AIS list of Newlyn boats this morning it seems the beam trawler Algrie PZ199 has an answer to that age-old question, just where is the Promised Land...

turns out it is some 60 miles south west of Newlyn!

Pot hauler for sale:

13" pot hauler for sale - can be seen running - give John Paynter Stevens a shout on FB. Currently laying at North Quay, Hayle harbour. 

Mid-week market in Newlyn

Wednesday's mid-week market still managed to pull a few boats in to land including these netted pollack for the Atlantic Voyager...

and a trip of quality beam trawl fish from the Twilight III...

supplying top quality Dover sole...

and plaice...

there were also around 20 boxes of MSC Certified Cornish hake held over from the Silver Dawn's landing...

all of which helps to spread the load on the buyers being able to sell these top quality fish on to a much reduced markets

Newlyn keeping the fish coming!

Over 150 boxes, much of it superb MSC Certified Cornish hake on the market this morning from the netter Silver Dawn...

and a full trip of Dover sole, monk fish and megrim sole from the beam trawler Cornishman...

including some cracking turbot...

megrim sole...

a few boxes of scallops...

and all-time favourite tub gurnard - especially when you bake them buried in sea salt - here's the recipe all set to cook...

were supplemented by a big white fish haul mainly of good sized haddock  from the Santa Marie...

on yet another stunning Mounts Bay morning!

Monday morning's market in Newlyn - stacked with fish destined for our tables.

Sunday afternoon saw the boats landing - some of the fleet like the Sapphire II are still continuing to fish despite the drop in demand...

including the netter Stelissa which has a full trip of hake on board taken from the banks 170 miles west of Newlyn...

with some of the fish she landed destined for the market at Brixham...

with the remainder stacked nigh on the market in Newlyn waiting to be sorted...

alongside fish from the Sapphire II...

and a trip of quality sized white fish like these big haddock from the Britannia V...

helping to fill the western end of the market...

along with fish from three bean trawlers and the netter Ocean Pride...

and stacked 4 or 5 high for the auction...

with a mix of beam trawl fish...

and net fish there's plenty for buyers like George Cleave to choose from..

so fingers crossed for the guys that the demand is there to keep prices workable so that there are still steady supplies of fish available across the UK.

Floyd - the man who put the F in Fish!

Enjoy a salty smattering of a day at sea aboard a Plymouth trawler with Sir Keith, when the British public was just beginning to be educated by the man who changed TV chefery forever...

how he would have loved to have been on deck here and explaining to us how these guys haul hake aboard and pick them out of the nets...

then he would have been down the quay this morning cheering on Newlyn boats like the Stelissa who were at sea this week doing their bit to put fresh fish on our tables!

If you need to know where to buy fresh fish check out this website:

Buy your fresh fish here

Enjoy!

Impress your friends - with how to pick a spider crab!

It's a bit early yet for the spider crab season but in anticipation of this fine early summer feast here goes:

Spider crab is landed to Cornish ports by potters and netters. it is not well appreciated locally but it is a delicacy in France and Spain. We hope that this film will encourage you to be adventurous and to give picking out the meat from a cooked spider crab a try - buy a few, fire up the BBQ and share the picking experience over a glass or three of a suitable early summer beverage!

It is delicious and far sweeter and often more juicy than a brown crab. Gareth Horner is a fifth generation fishmonger who owns the family business, E.Rawle and company in Newquay.