The increase in landing volumes last year, reported in the Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics, ties in with what I have been hearing from fishermen in my constituency.
This is despite the fact UK boats only get to land 40% of the fish in our own waters.
It signposts the success which lies ahead when we leave the EU and the Common Fisheries Policy - a sea of opportunity.
Leaving the EU means we can secure a fairer deal for our fishermen across the UK.
This Conservative government is committed to doing just that.
I was grateful to Liz Truss, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and her team for visiting Peterhead at the end of the month.
Fish processing was at the top of our agenda and we discussed the particular challenges faced by Banff and Buchan’s coastal communities in sourcing workers, and the uncertainty caused by very anaemic support from the SNP Government.
Their continued refusal to cut business rates in half – just to match competitors in England – is causing the cost of doing business in Aberdeenshire to rise.
While the Nationalists are trying to foster grievance over Brexit there are immediate and keenly felt challenges caused by non-domestic rates bills.
Business is being lost to English firms because they have a competitive edge over Scottish companies.
Independent statistics from the fish processing industry have revealed a 34% decline in fish processing in Scotland.
That threat is real and the SNP Government must immediately cut these rates or that sobering percentage will rise even further.
There was a statement from Fergus Ewing on the future of agricultural payments to the Scottish Parliament last week, which did little to clear things up for an industry left in the dark by the SNP.
While the UK Government laid out its guarantees to maintain EU funding levels until 2020 some months ago, farmers and crofters have been looking for some indication as to what the SNP will do the devolved system of payments after that point.
But that expectation was again dashed as Mr Ewing failed to give any detail of how Scottish payments will work.
The weak programme for government delivered by Nicola Sturgeon neglected to mention the agriculture legislation which needs to come in imminently.
My Scottish Conservative MP colleagues and I are continuing to press for certainty in industries such as fishing and farming. This is why a succession of UK Government ministers have been invited to our communities, to hear first-hand about their challenges as well as successes.
This is doubly important because Nicola Sturgeon appears not to be giving them a thought.