Popular interest and scientific concerns have focussed on the potential for sea level rise and increased risks of coastal flooding in a future warmer world.
This videoed talk reviews the recent global evidence for changes, including the 2007 IPCC Report and look in detail at changes observed at the principal UK Tide Gauge site, Newlyn, from 1915 to 2005. Changes may include not only mean sea level rises, but also increased meterorological effects on surges, and changes in tidal regimes - it seems it is not just the fishing industry for which the harbour is known throughout the world.
Thursday 20 May 2010
Signs of a change in the weather?
The barge, Ivor B is finally out of the dry dock and has taken up a quay berth in the wet dock......
your chance to see an amazing film coming to the PZGallery on the 24th May, this high-tech thriller follows the daring crusade of an elite group of activists and filmakers as they strive to uncover a dark secret involving environmental and human rights abuse and the covert killing of thousands of dolphins hidden beneath the infamous waters of.......The Cove.......
there's some serious planning afoot for the Bay it seems - with what look like a huge breakwater off the Prom - perhaps a plan to thwart the Superstock powerboats that will carve their way at high speed around the Bay this weekend coming......
the Jubilee Pool is having a makeover which will restore its art deco ambiance once the sun shines on its mix of dazzling white and turquoise.......
but for the moment there's a heavy morning mist which generally precludes a shift in the weather pattern indicating warmer days ahead.......j'espere.......
must have been a busy night in the Swordy.......
a big consignment of fish from Irish boats filled one end of the market......
the mackerel move on again, a hard mornings wiffing for just two boxes, the sum total of Joey's efforts this morning......
the visiting yachts are bigger at this time of year and are beginning to fill the available berths at the end of the pontoons.Wednesday 19 May 2010
Sea Fever - last in the series and this week - Gone Fishing!
if you missed it - don't worry - head off to the BBC iPlayer and catch the latest episode of Sea Fever - which this week took a look at the fishing through a mixture of archive and contemporary footage - much of the old and new footage from the far end of Cornwall ans St Ives in particular.
Eagle-eyed viewers with a knowledge of fishing will no doubt spot the occasional discrepancy between the commentary and the footage of gear, boats and places.
Many will also feel moved to comment on the age at which some of them first went to sea on their father's boats - as young as seven - and all without the now mandatory Sea Survival, Firefighting and First Aid Certificates - but that was then and this is now!
The series which focuses on Britain's maritime history, culture, economics and science concludes with the remarkable story of Britain's fishermen, using home movie archive.
At the beginning of the 20th century thousands made a good living working in conditions of unimaginable danger. But technology and avarice in some areas created problems of over-fishing and the century ended with the port of Hull laid to waste. Hull skipper Ken Knox and filmmaker/engineer Alan Hopper watch Alan's astonishing films and tell how the sophisticated technologies companies used to send crews to distant Atlantic waters in the 50s and 60s in the hunt for white fish. Hull's men had already fished out local waters using a technique called box fleet fishing, a dangerous method remembered by one who did it in the 1930s, Robert Rowntree.
Smaller ports survived and small scale family fishing was part of the secret of their success. In Peterhead, Donald Anderson filmed the exploits of his crew, including his young son, as the fleets hunted herring shoals.
In St Ives, the Stevens fishing family were filmed by a local film-maker on their boat the Sweet Promise back in the 1950s. Watching this film today is David Stevens, the son of the skipper and 15 at the time, and crew member Donald Perkin, the last of six brothers who worked as fishermen in St Ives from the 30s to the 80s. There is footage of David Stevens Jnr at sea today on the family boat Crystal Sea II.
Historian from the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Tony Pawlyn, helps explain how these men fished and why they survived while the Hull men went under. These men are our last link with a tradition of hunter-gathering.
The programme goes to Skye in Scotland and asks if the new way of fishing - farming - is the ultimate threat to livelihoods of these hunter-gatherer fishermen.
Eagle-eyed viewers with a knowledge of fishing will no doubt spot the occasional discrepancy between the commentary and the footage of gear, boats and places.
Many will also feel moved to comment on the age at which some of them first went to sea on their father's boats - as young as seven - and all without the now mandatory Sea Survival, Firefighting and First Aid Certificates - but that was then and this is now!
The series which focuses on Britain's maritime history, culture, economics and science concludes with the remarkable story of Britain's fishermen, using home movie archive.
At the beginning of the 20th century thousands made a good living working in conditions of unimaginable danger. But technology and avarice in some areas created problems of over-fishing and the century ended with the port of Hull laid to waste. Hull skipper Ken Knox and filmmaker/engineer Alan Hopper watch Alan's astonishing films and tell how the sophisticated technologies companies used to send crews to distant Atlantic waters in the 50s and 60s in the hunt for white fish. Hull's men had already fished out local waters using a technique called box fleet fishing, a dangerous method remembered by one who did it in the 1930s, Robert Rowntree.
Smaller ports survived and small scale family fishing was part of the secret of their success. In Peterhead, Donald Anderson filmed the exploits of his crew, including his young son, as the fleets hunted herring shoals.
In St Ives, the Stevens fishing family were filmed by a local film-maker on their boat the Sweet Promise back in the 1950s. Watching this film today is David Stevens, the son of the skipper and 15 at the time, and crew member Donald Perkin, the last of six brothers who worked as fishermen in St Ives from the 30s to the 80s. There is footage of David Stevens Jnr at sea today on the family boat Crystal Sea II.
Historian from the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Tony Pawlyn, helps explain how these men fished and why they survived while the Hull men went under. These men are our last link with a tradition of hunter-gathering.
The programme goes to Skye in Scotland and asks if the new way of fishing - farming - is the ultimate threat to livelihoods of these hunter-gatherer fishermen.
Fishing Expo - A New Dawn for Fishing 2010.
If time allows and the inclination takes then pack a case and head for the land of single malts, haggis, hand dived scallops, langoustine and the biggest fish market in the UK - its Fishing Expo at the SECC Glasgow.
The show, spread over three days gives everyone a chance to mingle and mix with all sectors of the industry in the wrmth and comfort of Scotland's biggest exhibition venue.
Highlight of the social events was to be the dinner dance in aid of the RNMDSF, better known as 'The Mission' which has, sadly been cancelled.
However, all hands will look forward to see which lucky member of the fishing fraternity has been nominated, 'Fisherman of the Year', organised by Inverurie based global crew information services provider, Crew2crew.com, in association with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.
Wings of ray.
Fresh samphire, parsley and salted capers.......
ready for the ray wings poached with a handful of sauted onions......
mash with freshly grated horseradish.....
and a few more in season veg courtesy of Lovells in Newlyn.
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Slightly warmer morning greets the Bay.
Missing - one hat.......
its tuna time again! - local entrepreneur and Oilman, Kevin Bennetts latest venture has made it back to Newlyn after a considerable refit up at Toms' Yard Polruan......
a cherry picker might prove to be an excellent investment for the harbour to hire out to the boats needing to work topsides .......
'ello, 'ello, 'ello copper about......
a good mix of the silver fish about this morning, plenty of grey mullet.....
mackerel......
and a big shot of line caught bass for the Boy Dylan......
heading straight back to see chasing a good run of flats, the Shiralee in the safe hands of Plugger and artist's muse Jeff Page......
the oldest form of non-slip in the world.......
and light airs greet the Penzance dawn.Sunday 16 May 2010
Sunday's fish supper.
Fresh from Mitch Tonks' fish cook book Fresh, poached fillets with cider and greens.....
first, gently sauteed onions with garlic and then beans added along with 500ml of cider.......
into which fillets of lemon and megrim were added and poached for a further 8 minutes.....
accompanying the poached fish and veg is a sauce made in a bainmarie from olive oil, anchovies (which dissolve) and a finely chopped small chilli to taste to cover the quickly roasted broccoli.......
over on the the Mount, the water taxi has only one customer.
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