“I’ve not earned a penny this week,” says Trevor Tyldesley, smoking on the pier as the tide comes in. He points out his modest but freshly painted blue-and-white fishing boat bobbing in the harbour. “It’s hard to make a living here.”
Tyldesley, 55, has been fishing mackerel off St Ives for more than 20 years, having lived in the Cornish coastal town since he was three years old. He often goes out in his boat six or seven times a week; his beard is flecked with salt.
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