Tide & market, Monday 9 November

Port Aldous, Monday 9 November. The board was due at 06:00. The Desk was on the slipway at 05:40 watching the contractor meet the tide, and the board waited. It is here now.

Tides at the town steps: high 10:04 (3.3 m), low 16:21 (1.4 m), high 22:30 (3.4 m), low 04:38 Tuesday (1.2 m). Neaps. Nobody will need to slack a line this week.

New line, every week until someone dredges it: No. 3 buoy, 2.6 m below chart datum (October survey). In 2019 it was 3.2 m. Vote Thursday 19 November, lifeboat hall.

Landings, Saturday and Sunday:

• Mary Ellen: 360 kg hake, 45 kg ling
• Kittiwake: 22 creels hauled, 118 kg brown crab, 26 lobster
• Sorrel B: 240 kg haddock, 70 kg whiting. Came in on the breakwater side of the channel, as advised.
• Tern: went out. The Desk has checked twice.

Market, Friday auction, closed 07:35:

• Hake £4.25/kg, up 15p
• Haddock £3.90/kg
• Whiting £1.85/kg
• Brown crab £3.20/kg
• Lobster £21.50/kg, up 50p. The buyers agree on the reason this time. The Desk does not believe either of them.

Biscuit is home and has been banned from the ice plant porch.