7 September 2012
NEWLYN
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Larry Hartwell’s ‘Through the Gaps’ Newlyn harbour blog is a resource for everything from the weather forecast to the world price for Brent crude and almost everything between
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arry himself is a familiar figure around Newlyn, armed with camera and iPhone, and is one of the Saturday morning regulars who put the world to rights in the Mission, writes Quentin Bates. Larry’s wonderful images serves well to also encapsu-
late Fishing News’ emphasis on the importance of fish quality and good practise in fish handling. He told FN that he isn’t a local boy, but came to Cornwall in the 1970s with his wife who had grown up in Newlyn. The two of them had moved west with their teaching qualifications, but with few teaching jobs to be had, it was down the quay to find work on a boat. Larry started fishing handlining for mackerel and then trawling with Bobby Cairns on the Girl Freda, before moving on to longlining on the KimBill with Bill Tonkin when most of the 50-60ft Newlyn boats were longliners. Then there was a switch to trawling with Alan Goddard on the Fern during the pioneering days of prawn trawling on the Smalls alongside local boats Pathfinder and Gamrie Bay. “I even did a double page story on that for Fishing News about it,” he said, adding that he then spent time on the Keriolet netting for hake and trawling for fish and prawns, as well as pairing opposite the Ben My
1: One of Newlyn’s toshers 2: Tuna fisherman Sean Edwards, skipper-owner of the Nova Spero, celebrating a big pole and line tuna trip landing in Newlyn 3: Sam Smith of CEFAS collecting data samples as they do every day on the market 4: Landing fish from the Govenek of Ladram, one of the biggest netters in the UK fleet 5: Shifting boxes on Newlyn market
Chree. Then there were skipper’s berths on the Dumnonia, trawling on the Jacqueline and hake netting on the Trewarveneth. Eventually reclaimed by the his original profession, he now teaches IT, art and photography at Penwith College, but the world of fishing is never easily escaped.
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