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Monday, 31 March 2025

It's all go in Penzance and Newlyn!



A fine start to the week...

with plenty of fish filling the market this morning...


head-on monk from the visiting Scottish prawners...


big bug-eyed ling...


and a fridge full if inshore line caught fish...


and eight-leggers...


there was solid mackerel fishing over the weekend for the punt men...


while netters like the Ajax...



Ocean Pride...

and Ygraine filled their fishrooms with hake...


and the big beamer landed a good shot of Dovers...


and a few pollack...



what do drivers do when they are not driving?..


go for a cuppa of course in the ice works tea house...


before their wagons are loaded...


Resource Centre in action...


it's closing time in PZ wet dock...


first 2025 season weekday trip for the Scillonian III...


Penzance wet dock is busy this morning...

 after playing host to the 60m luxury yacht, Akula registered in Bloody Bay


loading the Scilly boat...


the Guardian is in for some light work...


while the Dry Dock undergoes a massive refit...


Arnie keeps up the fitness levels with plenty of fresh fruit, must have taken a leaf from his La Rochelle rugby playing son's diet sheet...


the Gry Maritha basking in the morning sun prior to oading...



as is the Admiral...


Plymouth Marine Laboratory's, Plymouth Quest almost six months after entering the dock for a few repairs and a little refit...


is due to undergo sea trials this week, which should put even bigger smiles on these two old salt's faces


Friday, 28 March 2025

Final #FishyFriday for March in Newlyn.

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local plein air painter, Clare catching some contre-jour action in the early hours...



he just can't stay away...


quite a busy market for a #FishyFriday and the promise of really busy one on Monday...


just the one cod again...



good tyo see the handliners in action...

scad, one of the five named fosh in the South West Pelagic Fish FMP...


good selection of flats from the beamer...


pollack landings continue despite the 'total ban', which, ironically, affected the only boat in the harbour to target pollack 100% using hook and line - you couldn't make it up!...


quality tubs...


box of black bream to keep some restaurants happy...


a brace of John Dory for the Scotsman...


while tyhe beamer landed Dovers...


megrim...


and turbot...


the netters like the Ajax came in with good shots of hake...


just look at the quality of those blood-red gills...


another old-timer putting his back into it...



oops...

the Stelissa also found hake...



no boat seems to escape finding dogs on the grounds...

out the door they go...


all smiles despite the triple shift!..



no stone left unturned...


work on the Fishing Resource Centre is now well underway...


yet more pots...


a bevvy of visiting beamers from Brixham...


someone must have cleaned out the seat lockers...


Newlyn stands with Ukraine.


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