"I voted to leave on the promises of what Mr Johnson told us", says Mike Young, a fisherman from Brixham.

"He went totally back on the word he gave us, and it looks like it has happened again now."

Mike is saying what a lot of the UK's fishing fleet is thinking today, as Sir Keir Starmer's much-trailed Brexit reset has seen him extend EU fishing rights in British waters for another 12 years, until 2038.

Fishing was the sticky point in negotiations over the weekend, which went on into the small hours of Monday morning, when the UK-EU summit was just a few hours away.

Like any negotiation, sacrifices have to be made, and for the prime minister to get closer to the EU on things like defence and security, it's clear he needed to make some concessions elsewhere.

The EU - led largely by the French - has been pushing for an extension to the post-Brexit fishing deal that would give them guaranteed, long term access to UK waters.

It was due to expire at the end of June 2026, with the Cornish Fish Producers' Organisation recently calling for a "fairer deal".

To get into the finer detail, this was largely about Boris Johnson giving EU vessels access to the UK's 6-12 nautical mile zone - an area off the coast of many communities in the South West that fishers strongly argue should be exclusively for them only.

Many voted for Brexit on the promise of total control over UK waters - and many argue they've never seen it. Now fishers won't be able to re-negotiate for at least another 12 years under the terms of Labour's reset deal, which the Conservatives and Reform have called a big "Brexit betrayal".

But what some coastal Labour MPs are saying to me, is that there was going to be a better deal.

On criticism from the Right, Noah Law, St Austell and Newquay's Labour MP, quips: "The original betrayers have come out to give us lectures in just how to negotiate this kind of deal."

He argues that people who voted for Brexit were doing so on 'false promises', and anyone with knowledge of these negotiations knows that this deal is the best it's going to get - for now, anyway.

Jayne Kirkham, Truro and Falmouth's Labour MP, tells me: "We certainly haven't sold fishers down the river, they were already halfway down the river unfortunately from what happened before.

"We've got that certainty now, we can keep negotiating and make sure we can get the best we can." She is vowing that all Cornish MPs will fight for the future of the sector.

They are insisting that the deal isn't all bad for fishers. The easing of trade restrictions will make exporting shellfish to the EU much easier, and the Liberal Democrats are championing this too. After Britain left the EU, Ms Kirkham says red tape "virtually killed" the businesses of shellfish producers in places like Falmouth.

Now, fishermen will be allowed to transport the animals to the EU without having to get them treated in purification plants.

While St Ives' Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is taking a more critical stance - saying the sector has been "let down" by both the Tories and Labour - South Devon's Caroline Voaden is describing the deal as a "mixed bag", pointing to easier trading rules which she argues are "really good news for fishers".

In terms of what fishing provides for the UK economy, it's relatively small, but it's also not to be sniffed at, and it's important. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the sector contributes around 0.03% of GDP.

So for every £1,000 of total economic output, around 30p.

But it provides a critical source of income, not just through catch but with boat maintenance and tourism.

The industry helps with food security and reports have shown it is critical when it comes to community cohesion. Particularly in parts of Devon and Cornwall, fishing is intertwined with identity and can be traced back generations.

So, from an optics point of view, the angry headlines are not ideal for the prime minister and his new coastal MPs who now have to try and appease a disappointed sector.

They hope that a £360 million investment into coastal communities might help soften the blow, with promises to modernise the fleet, upgrade equipment, and provide skills and training into the future.

They'll also pitch this deal as giving fishers must better access to the EU, making exports much easier.