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Fishing in Cornwall

Index Fishing in Cornwall

Fishing in Cornwall, England, UK, has traditionally been one of the main elements of the economy of the county. [1]

71 relations: A. K. Hamilton Jenkin, Arsenic, Big-game fishing, Bishop of Exeter, Boat building, Boscastle, Bude, Cadgwith, Calais, Cancer pagurus, Charitable trust, Cob (material), Conder (fishing), Conger, Cornish language, Cornwall, Duchy of Cornwall, Falmouth Docks, Fish processing, Fishing trawler, Flushing, Cornwall, Fowey, Gorsedh Kernow, Granite, Gurnard's Head, Gwavas, Harbor, Helford River, Homarus gammarus, Johnny Frenchman, Jonathan Couch, Kaolinite, Lobster, Looe, Lophius, Lugger, Maja squinado, Mediterranean Sea, Mevagissey, National Lobster Hatchery, Navy, Newfoundland (island), Newlyn, Newlyn School, Newquay, Nick Darke, Ounce, Overfishing, Polperro, Polperro Gaffer, ..., Port Quin, Richard Carew (antiquary), River Cottage, Saint Anne, Sardine, Seine fishing, Shark, Sharp's Brewery, Shingle beach, St Agnes, Cornwall, Stanhope Forbes, Stargazy pie, Thatching, Thomas Bewick, Tin, Troyl, Victoria County History, Victorian era, William Bottrell, William Yarrell, Yacht. Expand index (21 more) »

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin

Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin (29 October 1900 – 20 August 1980) was best known as a historian with a particular interest in Cornish mining, publishing The Cornish Miner, now a classic, in 1927.

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.

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Big-game fishing

Big-game fishing, also known as offshore sportfishing, offshore gamefishing, or blue-water fishing is a form of recreational fishing, targeting large fish such as tuna and marlin which game fisherman regard as having "sporting qualities".

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Bishop of Exeter

The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury.

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Boat building

Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.

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Boscastle

Boscastle (Kastel Boterel) is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, UK, in the civil parish of Forrabury and Minster (where the 2011 Census population was included).

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Bude

Bude (Porthbud) is a small seaside resort town in north Cornwall, England, UK, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (also known locally as the River Strat).

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Cadgwith

Cadgwith (Porthkajwydh, meaning cove of the thicket) is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Calais

Calais (Calés; Kales) is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

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Cancer pagurus

Cancer pagurus, commonly known as the edible crab or brown crab, is a species of crab found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Charitable trust

A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes and, in some jurisdictions, a more specific term than "charitable organization".

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Cob (material)

Cob, cobb or clom (in Wales) is a natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (typically straw), and sometimes lime.

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Conder (fishing)

In English fishing customs, a conder, also called a huer or bulker, was a person who stood on high places near the sea coast, in times of herring-fishing, to signal to the fishers which way the shoal of herrings or pilchards passed—their course being more discernible to those who stand on high cliffs, due to the blue color they cause in the water, than to those aboard vessels.

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Conger

Conger is a genus of marine congrid eels.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Kernowek) is a revived language that became extinct as a first language in the late 18th century.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Duchy of Cornwall

The Duchy of Cornwall (Duketh Kernow) is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster.

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Falmouth Docks

Falmouth Docks are a deep-water docks of the town of Falmouth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Fish processing

The term fish processing refers to the processes associated with fish and fish products between the time fish are caught or harvested, and the time the final product is delivered to the customer.

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Fishing trawler

A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.

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Flushing, Cornwall

Flushing (Nanskersys) is a coastal village in west Cornwall, England, UK, in the civil parish of Mylor.

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Fowey

Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Gorsedh Kernow

Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Gurnard's Head

Gurnard's Head (Ynyal, meaning desolate one) is a prominent headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, UK.

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Gwavas

Gwavas is a residential council estate on the southern outskirts of the town of Newlyn in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Harbor

A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences; synonyms: wharves, haven) is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked.

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Helford River

The Helford River (Dowr Mahonyer) is a ria (flooded river valley) in Cornwall, England, fed by small streams into its many creeks.

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Homarus gammarus

Homarus gammarus, known as the European lobster or common lobster, is a species of clawed lobster from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and parts of the Black Sea.

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Johnny Frenchman

Johnny Frenchman is a 1945 British film produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend.

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Jonathan Couch

Jonathan Couch (15 March 1789 – 13 April 1870) was a British naturalist, the only child of Richard and Philippa Couch, of a family long resident at Polperro, a small fishing village between Looe and Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall.

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Kaolinite

Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Lobster

Lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans.

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Looe

Looe (Logh, "deep water inlet") is a small coastal town, fishing port and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, with a population of 5,280 at the 2011 census.

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Lophius

Members of the genus Lophius, also sometimes called monkfish, fishing-frogs, frog-fish, and sea-devils, are various species of lophiid anglerfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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Lugger

A lugger is a class of boat, widely used as traditional fishing boats, particularly off the coasts of France, England and Scotland.

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Maja squinado

Maja squinado (the European spider crab, spiny spider crab or spinous spider crab) is a species of migratory crab found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Mevagissey

Mevagissey (Lannvorek) is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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National Lobster Hatchery

The National Lobster Hatchery is a charitable organization located in Padstow, England.

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Navy

A navy or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newlyn

Newlyn (Lulyn: Lu 'fleet', Lynn/Lydn 'pool') is a seaside town and fishing port in south-west Cornwall, UK.

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Newlyn School

The Newlyn School was an art colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century.

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Newquay

Newquay (Tewynblustri) is a town in the south west of England, in the United Kingdom.

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Nick Darke

Nick Darke born Nicholas Temperley Watson Darke (29 August 1948 – 10 June 2005) was a Cornish playwright and writer, poet, lobster fisherman, environmentalist, beachcomber, politician, broadcaster, film-maker and chairman of St Eval Parish Council.

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Ounce

The ounce (abbreviated oz; apothecary symbol: ℥) is a unit of mass, weight, or volume used in most British derived customary systems of measurement.

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Overfishing

Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish from a body of water at a rate that the species cannot replenish in time, resulting in those species either becoming depleted or very underpopulated in that given area.

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Polperro

Polperro (Porthpyra, meaning Pyra's cove) is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Polperro Heritage Coastline in south Cornwall, England.

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Polperro Gaffer

The Polperro Gaffer is a type of fishing vessel used in Cornwall.

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Port Quin

Port Quin (Porth Gwynn, meaning white cove) is a small cove and hamlet between Port Isaac and Polzeath in north Cornwall, England, UK.

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Richard Carew (antiquary)

Richard Carew (17 July 1555 – 6 November 1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary.

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River Cottage

River Cottage is a brand used for a number of ventures by television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

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Saint Anne

Saint Anne, of David's house and line, was the mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition.

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Sardine

"Sardine" and "pilchard" are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Seine fishing

Seine fishing (or seine-haul fishing) is a method of fishing that employs a fishing net called a seine, that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Sharp's Brewery

Sharp's Brewery is a British brewery founded in 1994 in St Minver Lowlands, Rock, Cornwall, by Bill Sharp.

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Shingle beach

A shingle beach (also referred to as rocky beach or pebble beach) is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small- to medium-sized cobbles (as opposed to fine sand).

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St Agnes, Cornwall

St Agnes (Breanek) is a civil parish and a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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Stanhope Forbes

Stanhope Alexander Forbes (18 November 1857 – 2 March 1947), was an artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters.

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Stargazy pie

Stargazy pie (sometimes called starrey gazey pie, stargazey pie and other variants) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (or sardines), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust.

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Thatching

Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm fronds, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.

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Thomas Bewick

Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English engraver and natural history author.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Troyl

Troyl is a colloquial Cornish word meaning a barn-dance or céilidh, a social evening of dance, music and song.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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William Bottrell

William Bottrell (1816–1881) was born at Rafta, St Levan in Cornwall on 7 March 1816.

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William Yarrell

William Yarrell (3 June 1784 – 1 September 1856) was an English zoologist, prolific writer, bookseller and naturalist admired by his contemporaries for his precise scientific work.

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Yacht

A yacht is a watercraft used for pleasure or sports.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_in_Cornwall

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