Sage EugenieHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): Thank you. I just want to put on record for anyone who's listening that the reason the select committee amendments were unanimous is because the Green Party does not have a permanent member of the Primary Production Committee but the Standing Orders enable any member of Parliament to attend a committee and the Green Party saw this bill as really important—it was the first major change to fisheries legislation in some years—so we did attend and we listened to all the submissions. And there was debate and discussion as a result of those submissions.We were talking about bycatch a little while ago. In clause 6 which the Minister's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 257 would remove—but at the moment it is in the bill; clause 6 amends section 11 of the principal Act around sustainability measures—there is a major issue of bycatch not just of species that are not targeted but of fur seals in the hoki fishery; of thousands of seabirds—I think it was about 14000 a year or so ago; turtles. The bill at the moment doesn't make any major changes to the information principles the sustainability measures or the environmental principles in the main Act to tackle the bycatch issue.It is of major concern because the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research did a report recently about turtles and 273 turtles—primarily leatherback turtles—have been caught by the fishing industry between 2007-08 and 2021. These are vulnerable to critically endangered species. They migrate from the South-west Pacific which is quite tropical down to northern New Zealand waters and spend anything like 12 months there. In places like Hawaii there is much more focus through their fisheries management system in preventing bycatch. There's an upper limit on the number of turtles that can be caught and then the fishery closes. There are areas where fishing isn't allowed in order to protect breeding populations which we don't have here. But there are measures there that are further ahead than here.Similarly with seabirds a lot of the longline fisheries have bait on the hook and then the birds dive to get the bait get caught get drowned. One of the most heartbreaking things for me was being fortunate enough go to the Antipodes and see there albatross chicks where one parent had been killed—probably in longline fisheries—and because the chicks need food from both parents to thrive and survive they were likely to die. So we do not in New Zealand insist on all of the mitigation measures that can be used in order to reduce bycatch of seabirds.So my question to the Minister is in relation to an SOP in my name which would seek to change the environmental principles and add to section 11 the sustainability principles to require when decisions are made under the Act that there is a need to specify effective measures which fishers must implement to reduce the bycatch of protected species. We have a national plan of action for seabirds which has got a goal of moving towards zero bycatch but unless this is flagged in the principal Act it doesn't get the attention that it deserves in the Green Party view.So to the Minister in terms of these changes around bycatch does he recognise that bycatch is an issue and are there any plans by him the Government and Fisheries New Zealand to actually strengthen the legislation around bycatch? And will he support the Supplementary Order Paper?