Moody Monday morning start to the week in Newlyn.

 

The light changes dramatically...

within minutes as the sun comes up...

in this morning's market there are some boxes of top quality fish to tempt the buyers, like these superb bream from the trawls of the Spirited Lady III...

line caught bass...

and more from the Huers...

red mullet seem to be everywhere at the moment, these beauties came form the Irish boat Unity back landing in Newlyn after a short break fishing closer to home south of Dunmore...

while the beam trawler Twilight III also picked up some and landed them in excellent condition...

nothing quite beats the look of red mullet landed by an inshore boat though as these crackers testify...

monk in quantity at this time of year are the domain f the beam trawl fleet...

while fine weather meant that most of the inshore trawlers are making the most of this extended run of fine weather and returning with top quality fish like this big turbot...

though two boxes of bass is exceptional at any time of the year, could be down to the more finessed touch of a new female crew aboard Richard's Still Waters...

and yet more bream from the Millennia...

there was hake a-plenty from the Silver Dawn, the last netter to land at the end of this neap tide...

and a few boxes of big ling, once the mainstay of the long-lining fleet that made up the bulk of the port's larger vessels during the 60s and 70s until more efficient and effective gill-netting took over...

a dozen boxes of cuttles, a far cry from previous years when cuttlefish landings could be measured in tons...

the boys on the big Irish boat Unity keep their twin trawls in tip-top condition, the nets are run off down the quay for repairs between trips...

in years to come it is likely that there will be a number of wind farms around these shores and boats like this will be based here permanently - in which case the plans to double the size of the port by developing Sandy Cove to accommodate shore services and the possibility of extra freight traffic will be justified as the way to further expand, just like Newlyn's forebears did over 100 years ago...

work continues aboard the Voyager fitting out her net pounds and shelter...

a brace of crabbers...

get the once over from the harbour's resident seal standing to underwater attention...

before spending a few minutes resting on the bottom...

 and before surfacing again showing off a fine set of bristles.

UK-EU Trade Fisheries on Fisheries - what's to learn?

 

Below, is the UK-EU Trade Agreement for Fisheries published in March of this year:

Full on fish for #FishyFriday in Newlyn.

Not the brightest start to the day in Newlyn...

but there's plenty of top quality fish on the morning auction, even three large cod...

and a few boxes of those rock and wreck-loving congers...

at this time of year John Dory landings are just a trickle...

while young Tom on the Harvest Reaper always seems to pick up a few decent bass every trip...

to go with his ray...

reds and cuttles...

while Brackan's red mullet are absolutely top-notch quality as you would expect from a small trawler hauling after shorter tows - the Breton boats that work these waters reckon on hauling every two and a half hours, sometimes three during daylight in order to keep the quality as high as possible - fish swirling around in the cod-end begin to lose their scales after a while and while that doesn't affect earing quality it does affect how the fish appear...

just the one bream this morning...

while the big beam trawlers put ashore good landings of monk tails...

haddock...

big megrim soles...

and plaice...

leaving the Imogen to weigh in with a good shot of lemons...

in the fridge, the handline fish included a good few boxes of mullet...

and bass...

and you can tell from the glistening-golden skin of these pollack that they were all hooked aboard...

just a handful of silver darlings to end the week...

while mackerel continued to be landed in quantity...

it was the sardine fleet whose long night looking for fish eventually paid off with fish from the Charlotte Clare...

and the Pelagic Marksman

and the crabber Harriet Eve made for a busy scene alongside the fish market...

which kept the local gull population in something of a feeding frenzy for much of the time...

the netters are now waiting for the next neap tide...

it is just possible that this rudder became detached form a casualty of WW2 as there are many wrecks in the Western Approaches left oveer from the concentrated efforts of German submarines...

judging by the wear, this riveted rudder looks as though it was towed  for a full watch 

by the ports biggest beam trawler Enterprise...

unlike the beginning of the week the Mary Williams pier is now full of boats between tides...

including the two latest additions to the fleet, both drawing around 5m when laden with gear, ice and fuel...

the ex-Sapphire III looks smart as ever...

the stealthy lines of the St Piran,  IFCA's powerful patrol vessel...

the Cornishman's decks are ready for action again...

flowers surround a small plaque acknowledging...

young Conor who sadly lost his life doing what he loved best, servicing the same boats of...

Stevenson's beam trawl fleet that his father skippers.