In port for the weekend.

 This quiet scene will change dramatically early on Monday morning 

when the crews prepare these vessels  to go to sea again.

Fishing boats in Sutton Harbour

What better place to eat fish fresh from the market.

Trawlers moored at the Fish Market

Plymouth Fisheries in Sutton Harbour is home to England's second largest fish market.

A few months ago, in November 2017, Plymouth Fish market recorded its first £1,000,000 week.

Earlier this month proposed plans, by property developers, to build residential units on the site were abandoned which is good news for the fishing industry in the city.

Even the cloudy sky

Makes an interesting reflection.

Parking is as big a problem on water

as it is in the city.

Red, White and Blue.

Winter sunshine in Sutton Harbour.

Alongside for Christmas

There is not much room left for any vessels still at sea,

as the fishing fleet ties up along the quays and pontoons at the Fish market, 

ready for the Christmas break.

The Fish market

"Barbican Fish market 2016"

Yannick Tonnelier.

 

Heading Home

to the Fish market in Sutton Harbour.

Provider

This fine vessel, moored at the Fish market in Plymouth, 

is a long way from her original port of registration, Coleraine, in Northern Ireland.

Early morning at the Fish market

Contrasting faces of Sutton Harbour

MESSY but COLOURFUL

at the Fish Market

TIDY but MONOCHROME

in the Marina

Another stormy day

Liquid mirror

Scallopers alongside at the Fish Market.

Sutton Harbour

Amid all the floating, white plastic, gin palaces in the marina,

there is still a vibrant community of working boats of all ages.

Trawlers

Vessels tied up on the Fish Market Quay in Sutton Harbour.

It looks as if ..........

... we are the only two people up and about

this early in the morning.

Polished to a mirror finish.

A perfect winter day.

Not a breath of wind, not a cloud in the sky, air temperature 0° C.

Crowded Fish Quays

It is very unusual to see so many trawlers tied up in port.

I'm pretty sure they were not stormbound, so I suspect that they are once again trapped 

in port by European Fishing Quota regulations.

When the seagulls follow the trawler ........

...... it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Eric Cantona 

                                                     Footballer, Film Actor, Philosopher and Poet.

                      at a 1995 press conference.

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