My family has been living and working in and around Newlyn for centuries.After all this time i find it disguting that it has gone from being the largest fishing port in the uk to virtually nothing.Some may say its due to port authorities being reluctant to see change,perhaps its corruption from certain businesses.
Whatever the reasons the only way its going now is as a tourist attraction and a nice place for those with money to buy a second home.There is no way that the proposed fish market can be funded with the fishing industry in decline.And as for it's design it amazes me how joe bloggs runs into trouble with the planners for changing his/hers windows,but this monstrosity can be put forward without any notion of blending into its surroundings or taking the history of newlyn into account.
This building,if it goes ahead,will end up as a white elephant and another excuse for those who have pie in the sky ideas to ruin another once proud and picturesque working cornish village.
The end result is a village being taken over by outside big money businesses hoping to make an easy and fast few quid for themselves.

I would like to learn a little more about this company and building. Where did you say it was located? Are the auctions open to the public?


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The way in which fish reaches the consumer has changed rapidly in the last 5years, the processing base in the southwest is concentrated between redruth in cornwall, to newton abbot in Devon, this puts the center around the A38 on the cornwall/Devon boarder. The fish that is landed by the fisherman in Newlyn has to reach the end user with as few links in the chain as possible. Many of the net boats now land their fish direct to french markets, theese are the same customers that they have been landing to for many years, but the only difference is that the fisherman are shipping the fish themselves instead of using the merchants in Newlyn to simply pass a box of fish on, thus taking an unecessary link out of the chain.
The private beam trawlers and the bottom trawlers have benefitted greatly from landing to Plymouth because the internet auction attracts more customers and with this method you can bid remotely so the cost of buying fish is cheaper to the end users, as less man hours are spent in the purchasing the fish from the market. Over the past 3years since the vessels have been landing to other markets like Plymouth, they have attracted new buyers who have spent time and money in basing their buying from the boats and from the markets that they land to, so neither they or the fisherman would be willing to move markets as we both have confidence in the auctioneers and the marketing infrastucture and the fact that the merchants have huge bounds payed to the selling agents it would be unwise to exspect them to carry the same espense to a new market that they are unsure about and would also be more exspensive to source from due to the greater distance from their premises.
I think the RDA have missed a trick here, what with a shrinking industry and a huge change in the selling of fish I feel it would be more sensible to have one market based around the A38 on the Cornwall/Devon boarder that would bring together the selling/auctioneering exsperience and the southwest processing,merchant expertise to a place of excellence, utilising the fantastic fish that is landed from the many ports around Cornwall and Devon.
For Newlyn I would suggest revamping what we already have in place so that we are still able to aution the small vessels if they wish to land to Newlyn, espcially in the tourist season as day boat fish is perfect for the local resteraunt trade, it would also be a more profitable venture as the harbour(due to, extreeme bad management can ill afford to fund a huge and unwarrented market).
This I know is a sad enditement of what was once the premier port in England, but this is the reallity of the fish trade in Newlyn and the last thing the fishing industry needs at this moment in time, is to be burdened by the exspense of what is now an unfeasable project.
This has come about because of the failure of the harbour commisioners to grasp the future of the marketing of fish, they were warned by the merchants and the fisherman, but they failed to listen or act, the result is that they have let the harbour users and most of all the community down.

Its all very well spending vast amounts of money on the new market but will there be an industry to warrant the expenditure in a few years, just look around the harbour and see what is happening, its seems to be going downhill very fast.

Fantastic building! This is going to be an iconic landmark and will, no doubt, re-galvanise Newlyn as a whole.