This is the first of three Stonehaven stories from a recent trip to the east coast of Scotland. Wes Lewis has been fishing all his life. A commercial fisherman for 20 years, he used to fish for bass and pollock on the south coast of England, and for the past five years he’s been catching crab, lobster and mackerel in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. He and his wife Maria run a local business called Seafood Bothy. With the relentlessness and intensity of the storms that hit Aberdeenshire most years now, things are difficult for them: Wes struggles to get out, especially in the winter, and when he does, a lot of his gear gets destroyed and fish don’t turn up where they used to.