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THOUSANDS of festival-goers expected to swarm to
Newlyn's spectacular fish festival this Bank Holiday Monday are
strongly advised to turn up hungry.
The
committee has been working the best part of the year to lay on a
diverse array of sumptuous seafood and traditional craft and
educational demonstrations and organisers are confident that this
year's festival will be the best yet.
The
family day out has activities and attractions for everyone, including
children's fish cookery workshops, cooking demos from award winning
chefs, gig races, divers' rescue operations, model boats, net mending
and willow pot making, helicopter displays, open fishing vessels, and
an auction and arts and crafts and live music.
Sailor and adventurer Pete Goss is officially opening the festival, and will be unveiling his handcrafted Cornish lugger called Spirit of Mystery.
Pete is following in the footsteps made by seven Cornishmen 150 years ago when they sailed an identical 37ft lugger, called the Mystery, from Cornwall to Australia.
The modern-day adventure , which
launches from Newlyn in October, will be undertaken without an engine
and navigated using the sun and the stars.
Mike
Collier MBE, festival chairman, paid tribute to the festival committee
and the Newlyn Harbour Master, Andrew Munson, and the Harbour
Commissioners "who generously allow us to take over their harbour every
year".
●Newlyn Fish Festival is a fundraising event for the Fishermen's Mission in Newlyn
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The Mission, which was set up by a Mrs Tonkin who rented a cottage as a
recreation room for fishermen in 1902, has been long associated with
Penlee and Sennen lifeboats, acting as the first port of call for
survivors on their way home
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Today's Fishermen's Mission has a living memorial room, set up in 1993
by the then superintendent, Len Scott, as "a testimony to those men and
their families who know the price of fish"
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Panels carry the names of many fishermen lost since 1945; the names of
those who died before this are recorded in a Book of Remembrance
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Last year the Mission distributed more than £16,500 to fishing families
in financial hardship. During Christmas Mission staff visited the homes
of 136 fishing families and gave presents to 14 children who had either
lost their father or were facing severe financial hardship
● The Newlyn-based 27 metre fisheries patrol boat Saint Piran, which patrols an area of 1,350 square nautical miles
● Open Fishing Boats – Newlyn Crabber Emma Louise, Beam Trawlers Billy Rowney and Sapphire
● Happy Return – the North Pier adjacent to the Mount's Bay Lugger Association's famous sardine barbecue
● Barnabas – the Cornish Maritime Trust's 40ft St Ives Mackerel Driver Dipping Lugger – the only survivor from St Ives
● Ellen – the Cornish Maritime Trust's Gorran Haven crabber, reputed to be the fastest Gorran Haven Crabber ever built
● RNLI Penlee Lifeboat Ivan Ellen – with crew on hand. Demonstrations from 2pm in the harbour entertainment's area
● Spirit of Mystery – open to visitors from 11am to 2.30pm. Boat will be named and blessed at 3pm in the harbour entertainment's area
● Mermaid Charter Fishing Boat – demonstrations, together with a commentary and local knowledge from the skipper
● The Trafalgar Trophy gig race at 12pm
● RNLI Lifeguards and Bilbo the famous Newfoundland
● Royal Navy Airfield fire engine
● RNAS Culdrose Rescue 193 Helicopter with the RNLI lifeboat Ivan Ellen
● Armed forces careers caravan
● HM Coastguard
● Mount's Bay Sub Aqua Club – divers
● Pond Hoppers model boat club
● Net mending and withy pot making demonstrations
● Retired fishermens arts and crafts
In the Fish Market
Seafood Cornwall Demonstration Kitchen and seafood recipes with chefs and industry experts all day
The Duchy Fish Quota Company merchandise stall
Seafish
Responsible Fishing Scheme display – promoting the scheme, which has
been developed to raise standards in the catching sector
Eat Out Cornwall stall
Marine Conservation Society, the UK's charity dedicated to caring for our seas, shores and wildlife.
Sciart Solution's promotion of the Cornish Fishing Curriculum and National Maritime Museum
Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen
The National Lobster Hatchery
Marine Fisheries Agency: information on fisheries enforcement tools, demos and a display fish tank for younger visitors.
9.30am & 1pm: a buyer's guide to fresh fish with Duncan and Sue Lucas from passionate about fish.
10.15am & 1.45pm: prepare and enjoy spider crab with seafish accredited trainer Annie Sibert.
11am & 2.30pm: seafood masterclass with chefs Keir Meikle and Jay Orrey from the Navy Inn, Penzance.
1.145am & 3.45pm: how to fillet with Duncan Lucas – five times national Fishmonger of the Year.
12.30pm & 3.15pm: charity fish auction with Robin Turner.
Seafood stalls
Marisco Fish
Seafood and Eat it
The Little Cornish Curry Company
Dan the Fish Man from Clovelly Fish
The Goan Seafood Company
Provedore Deli – Authentic Seafood Paella and
Locally caught Octopus
The Fish Shack – Seafood Tapas
Flying Fish Feasts
The Cornish Seafood Company
British Cured Pilchards
Chefs Keir Meikle and Jay Orrey from the Navy Inn, Penzance
Cornish Sardines – barbecued
Drew Davies Fishing Ltd
Music stage
9am: Heart and Soul
10am:
Opening ceremony introduced by the Chairman of the Newlyn Fish Festival
Committee Mike Collier with special guests Pete Goss and Dan Conley.
10.15am: Heart and Soul
11am: Newlyn Male Voice Choir
11.30am: The Cornish Wurzels
12.30am: Rum and Shrub, Sea Shanty Men
1.30pm: Janette Eathorne and Jill Abbott
2pm Camborne Youth Band
3.15pm: Award presentation
3.30pm: The Cornish Wurzels
4pm: Rum and Shrub, Sea Shanty Men
4.30pm: Heart and Soul
The
team behind the Fish Festival: Mike Collier, chairman, Sarah Henshall,
secretary, Andy Wheeler, treasurer, Peter Haddock, health and safety,
Gabriella Nonino – festival programme and web designer, John Gamlin,
entertainments coordinator, Janette Eathorne, music coordinator. The
Mission Men: Keith Dickson and Steve Canning. Emma Rowse, Nick Howell,
fish display , David Conington, stewards, Judith Parkin, flags and
Penzance town council representative, Andy Mamza – fishing industry
liaison and gang plank coordinator and John Lambourn, committee member
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