RiP Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022

 

Queen Elizabeth II lives on in a portrait in Fishmongers Hall, London.

Fine start to #FishyFriday in Newlyn.

Where-else would you rather be on such a fine morning...

fish-a-plenty of the market, some of it by-catch destined for the big crabbing fleet...

in the port that consumes several tons of gurnards and dogfish a day to keep the fleet at sea...

top drawer fish like monk tails...

and Dover sole...

and turbot remain firm favourites for chefs with busy fine-dining tables to satisfy...

not forgetting mackerel, echewed by some as nothing more than a 'scavenger' Michelin starred chefs like Richard Corrigan hold the fish in high esteem...

the final market of the week supplied exclusively by inshore and handline boats saw its fair share of ray, another one of those fish that you either love or hate...

as far as we are concerned it is still summer if there are sardines to be had, perfect at this time of year for a dish like sarde in saor - a real treat to impress your dinner guests...

there's plenty of pollack to provide an alternative fish 'n chips supper...

good to see the boys keeping our waters clean, more than some it would seem...

a brace of Nowell boats in reflective mood...

good to see Scotty is getting things ship-shape aboard the Nicola of Ladram...

yet another centuries old anchor trawled from the deeps, ow many more are there out there?...

SS273 Orion bound away for the day...

that's one serious looking bow...

Plymouth registered Admiral Gordon makes her way to the gaps...

the number of visiting yachts at this time of year drops dramatically, most are those making longer more serious passages.

Fishing as an identity.

 

Fishing is woven through our identity as a nation, and at the NFFO we support every corner of the industry. This film shows you the facets of UK fishing you don't normally see - the people on the ground who are working hard to sustain their local fishing fleet. We ensure they have a say in their future.

A story from Folkestone - Small or large. Static, passive, active. Fisheries don’t come in one-size-fits-all, and neither does our approach to working with fishermen. This film shows how NFFO works locally, regionally and nationally to champion and support our varied and dynamic industry.

Ranil Jayawardena is Britain's new fisheries minister.

 

Conservative MP Ranil Jayawardena was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the new British government of Liz Truss on 6th September.

A position held since 2020 by George Eustice , and which includes fishing. Born in 1986, the new minister responsible for Defra, MP for North East Hampshire since 2015, was part of the previous government, since May 2020, as Minister for International Trade. A graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE), this son of a Sri Lankan and an Indian woman, favorable to Brexit, was appointed vice-president of the Conservative Party by Boris Johnson in 2019.

A little bit of background: 

Ranil Jayawardena was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 6 September 2022. Previously he was Minister for International Trade from May 2020 to September 2022.

He was elected as the Conservative MP for North East Hampshire in 2015. Ranil went to his local comprehensive school in north east Hampshire and studied government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Ranil entered Parliament representing his home constituency in 2015, and was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. Before serving as a minister, he was a member of the International Trade, Home Affairs, Procedure and Arms Export Controls Committees, and had been appointed by the Speaker of the House of Commons to the Chairmens’ Panel. He was also made Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party by the Prime Minister. Prior to his election to Parliament, he was a councillor, serving as deputy leader of the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane.

Ranil combined his service in local government with working for Lloyds Banking Group plc and is a freeman of the City of London. He also has wide ranging commercial experience from the pharmaceutical, construction, transport and leisure sectors.

Ranil is married with a son and 2 daughters.

RIP Ken Howard RA - master of light and perspective.

Twelve years ago, almost to the day, I was lucky enough to catch local artist and Royal Academician Ken Howard at work capturing a view of the harbour from the Canners Slip. Ken was religious about his working day that, whether in the studio or 'en plein air', began at 6am. He gave a few minutes of his time but it was obvious that there was a need to work fast as the early morning light was changing by the minute.

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At this time of year when the weather is in two minds and it is either about to rain, or just has, the light in Newlyn has a unique quality. This was the attraction over one hundred years ago for a group of artists that became the Newlyn School as they sought to capture those light tones on canvas.  Today, if you are early enough down among the boats you can catch local artists at work 'en plein' in the early morning light. Today was no exception, with one of the doyens of English landscape artists, Ken Howard, at his easel intent on capturing the constantly changing moody sky above a harbour crowded with boats over the spring tide.

For reference - the photo, in order to apply the correct exposure to the painting on the canvas, is over exposed and has therefore failed to capture the dramatic sky that the artist is in the process of capturing 'contré jour' which translates as 'against the light' - a photograph exposed for the background when taken against the light inevitably causes the subject and foreground to appear as a silhouette.

Howard, born in 1932, dedicated his life's work to capturing the tonal qualities of coastal scenes, not only in the West of Cornwall but also in the Venice. His technically informative video, 'Inspired by Light' is essential viewing for any artist with an interest in his technique. In a long career that began at Hornsey School of Art in the 1950s he has since achieved many of the milestones that similar artists aspire to such as becoming a Royal Academician and more recently the Professor of Perspective at the RA. Early in his career, while serving as a marine in Northern Ireland he was appointed as an official war artist by the Imperial War Museum. His current work is available through his agent Richard Green in London, where he spends much of the year. The Royal Academy of Arts ran a story on him in their summer magazine last year - unable to resist the temptation to give it the strap line, Howard's Way.

Today, in a world of video and digital according to Ken, many art students, seem reluctant to subject themselves to the rigours of the craft of drawing and painting and in learning to apply centuries old techniques like the one he is using above - using his brush to measure proportion from the scene against his canvas - at one time in his career, Ken was Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy...

not all images have such strong and obvious vanishing points as this showing the gangplank leading aboard the Ripple. Different cultures see perspective in different ways.

He made many studies of the light in Newlyn on canvas...

Tim Hall, local marine artist and portrait painter who runs Cornwall Painting Holidays captured Ken Howard to a 'T' in this prize winning portrait of the artist in his Mousehole old school studio.

SW 7efg Regional Fisheries Group meeting

 

The SW (7efg) Regional Fisheries Group meeting takes place on Tuesday this week..

The meeting will take place between16:00 – 18:00 online.

There might be time if anyone has any questions for the MCA please send to the MCA so they can prepare more detailed answers.

The agenda will be of much interest to all those who fish in ICES Area VII e, f and g.

• 2023 Quota consultation 16:05 – 16:25 20 mins Katie James, MMO 16:25 – 16:40 15 Ross Deadman, Defra

• Fly-seining consultation 16:40 – 16:55 15 mins Katie McNally / Phil McBryde, Defra

• Floating wind farms in Celtic Sea 16:55 – 17:10 15 mins Sion Roberts, Crown Estate

• MCA Q&A 17:10 – 17:30 20 mins Laurence Capstick, MCA

• Channel Demersal Non-Quota Species Fisheries Management Plan 17:30 – 17:40 10 mins Jess Duffill Telsnig, MMO

• Shellfish Fisheries Management Plan 17:40 – 17:50 10 mins Lewis Tattersall, Seafish

• Brown Crab 17:50 – 18:00 10 mins Matt Johnson, Helen Hunter, Defra

• AOB 18:00 – 18:05 Survey sent after meeting Rachel Irish, MMO

Fine Monday morning in Newlyn.

If they are there, Cap'n Cod will catch'em...

likewise, Danny finished off a night's work on the sardines and then got the handlines out to top off with mackerel...

a real boost for Barry over the weekend...

there's a market for these guys when caught and kept alive to feed off the lice in Scottish salmon farms...

inshore conger don't come much darker than this...

Cod's arm must have been aching, been a long time since that many kilos came aboard...

George seems to have gone all corporate colourfull...

heading for the end berth at the fish market...

there's a bottom to be scrubbed today...

bigger boats like the Cornishman get the job done on the slip...

the season for trips aboard the restored Newlyn lugger, Happy Return is drawing to a close...

ongoing work on the beam trawler Trevessa IV...

respect, Acionna flying her Union flag at half mast...

another fine start to the day for the lobsterman as he heads away from the gaps.