Monday morning and there's a mermaid in Newlyn.

The Mermaid is waiting for the tide to drop...

despite the weather there was plenty of net fish on the market this morning with hake...

pollack...

and dogs...

top quality inshore red gurnard...

and monk...

with more to follow tomorrow...

the Silver Dawn also put ashore some cracking tub gurnard...

while the inshore trawler Millennia found a few good ray...

and plaice...

the port's big boat landed a full trip that included lemons...

monk and other quality flats...

while a few hardy inshore boats came back with the best fish like these bass...

eight-leggers

and grey mullet...

the sardine boat Lyonesse doing its community service...

along with some inshore jigged squid all designed to keep those top end restauranteurs happy...

this morning's big fish prize went to the sardine boat Serene Dawn...

after landing this 130kg blue fin...

part of the Enterprise's trip was made up with a few tins of cuttles...

we know who bought it but which fish is it?..

keeping a beady eye...

gone are the days of red anti-fouling it seems...

the big tides are the reason most of these guys are still in port...

on a fine looking morning...

it takes two to tango and fill the Enterprise thirsty tanks...

all set of another week on the crab.

 

Almost all the fleet is in for a fresh #FishyFriday in Newlyn, apart from a few hardy souls toughing it out!

Anyone who loves in Newlyn will immediately recognise this sky, after plenty of westerly wind and rain, the wind has gone round to the north west and is blowing hard, no doubt the odd shower will pass overhead during the day which will keep all but the biggest boat in the port...

 

the last market of the week saw plenty of hake from the last of the netters to land, top quality fish from the Ygraine......

Britannia V...

and the Stelissa...

a good box of tub gurnards provided some colour...

while sharks...

and haddock just aded to the mix of fish for sale...

the Cornishman was the last beamer to land with megrim sole...

red mullet...

and some a box or three of bass...

along with lemons...

dory...

scallops...

and signs that Jimmy was hitting the hard stuff, plenty of congers...

name this fish?...

and these ray...

each with their distinctive...

features on show,,,

not many whiting get landed these days partly owing to the bigger mesh size worked by the boats...

the only sardine boat to brave the heavy ground sea running last night was well rewarded with around fifteen tons of fish...

and a 110kg bluefin tuna, gutted, gilled and bled....

there's more than a few of these bonitos around too it seems...

he's broken in for the third time this week...

wile his mates sit on the windswept waters off the market...

RNLI-17-07, on passage from Poole...

yet another hardy yacht on passage...

squally weather...

the joys of mending on the quay at this time of year...

the largets trawler is still against the quay...

but the box-washing must go on.

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The fleet is at sea again in Newlyn!

With a forecast looking more benevolent after the shenanigans of storm Ciaran, all but a handful of the fleet are now at sea again...

with the market this morning almost entirely devoid of landings...

 

what there were fitted neatly into the back of the van...

a splash of colour on an otherwise dull, grey vista...

there's a wind-farm coming near you it seems...

another hardy yacht en passage...

in search of breakfast...

the Winter of Ladram between trips...

over in Penzance wet dock the beamers are resting...

as work continues on this Phoenix of a punt...

Rowse's latest crabber, the Michael Edward continues her fitting out...

that's it for the Scillonian III this season, who knows what next year will bring with Harland and Wolf showing an intention to run a high-speed ferry link to the Scillys.