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Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
When Mousehole based artist Henrietta Graham moved studio from Mousehole to Newlyn she didn't quite expect to become so closely involved with the fishing industry...
though she's no stranger to taking inspiration from the food industry having painted captured over fifty of the country's well-known chefs...
subsequently, several works were created after early morning visits to the fish auction...
followed by a week-long trip to sea aboard the netter Karen of Ladram armed with borrowed oilskins, boots and sketchbook with skipper Sid Porter and crew for company...
where she was treated to some right royal sunsets...
and, in between stints on deck sorting and washing fish as one of the crew, she sketched life on board for future reference...
the following months saw the seeds of an idea grow from the initial fish auction work when Newlyn Harbour Commissioners commissioned her to create six huge works...
each of the work depicts a different aspect of England's largest fishing port...
from the shoreside engineer, fabricators and welders...
to the guys at the heart of the business, the fishermen at work themselves.
Covid restrictions permitting the grand unveiling is scheduled for just after the Christmas period. Henrietta and her work will feature on BBC news today (Saturday), just as the hugely significant negotiations between the UK and the EU and the fishing industry come to a head as Michel Barnier arrives in London for what is hoped are the final stages to end the Brexit deadlock.
Volunteer skippers are needed to contribute to the scientific data usually collected through the Observer Programme. Current Covid-19 restrictions mean that Cefas observers are not able to join commercial fishing vessels.
"The Covid crisis has disturbed the way in which scientists collect the data that provides the raw material for fish stock assessments. Without good data we cannot expect good management decisions and the risk of tighter restrictions through the application of a precautionary approach is increased.