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Peter Bruce has been a fisherman since he was 16 and is now the skipper of his own boat. But the fishing business in Peterhead, a town in Aberdeenshire, isn’t what it was.
The pandemic and Brexit have hit the industry hard. There were once 120 commercial fishing vessels registered here, now there’s about 30.
“Boris Johnson and the highest levels of government came up to Peterhead, promising a new dawn for the fishing industry and they have really let us down,” Peter says.
Like many people in Scotland, his politics are complicated. His problem isn’t with Brexit itself, which he voted in favour of, but rather the deal that was done with the European Union.