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Cornish Fishing and Seafood by Carol Trewin and Adam Woolfitt
 Inch long baby lobsters,
already spoiling for a fight are kept separated at the National Lobster
Hatchery in Padstow. Bred up from wild eggs in the hatchery and released
back to sea, their chance of survival is increased many hundreds of
times. |
 Andrew Pascoe, one of the
“Bass Boys” based in Newlyn who catch fish using handlines for the highest quality sea bass around Penberth Cove near Land’s End. These fish are tagged with his boat number under a new quality assurance scheme. |
 A flurry of boats from
Looe, Polperro and Mevagissey crowd the sea during a run of mackerel. On board his specially built catamaran Mystique II, Dave Bond caught 73 boxes that were landed to Looe market |
 The last traditional
Oyster fleet fishes under sail on the River Fal
Dredging oysters aboard Tim Vinnicombe’s boat the Boy Willie in the Fal River estuary |
 Tail end of a Force 7
storm hustles the Stevens brothers’ trawler “Crystal Sea” along near the
Isles of Scilly |
 As fresh as they can be,
gurnard ready for auction on the fish market at Looe. |
Size:
246mm x 189mm |
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Photos CREDIT © ADAM WOOLFITT 2006 for Cornish Fishing and Seafood |
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