Lewis Steph; O'Connor GregSTEPH LEWIS (Labour—Whanganui): Thank you Mr Speaker. I would like to begin my contribution this afternoon by thanking the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries for his leadership in bringing this bill to the House. This bill amends the Fisheries Act 1996 an Act which established the quota management system and is older than I am funnily enough. But it's a $42 billion sector so it is of crucial importance which I agree with my colleagues across the House on. So it's important that we get this right and make sure that this industry is sustainable long into the future. I'd also like to thank submitters. Although I'm on the Primary Production Committee I wasn't here to hear from submitters in person as submissions were made while I was on parental leave. On that note I would really like to thank the officials who worked on supporting the committee on this bill who helped to bring me up to speed on where we were at when I returned back to Parliament.I come from an electorate which is very into fishing. We've got the notorious Whanganui bar over which many fishers head out across each day. We've got the Pātea bar which is even more notorious and of course Snapper Rock just out of Waiinu Beach. So this bill is really important to the people in my electorate. I just want to pick up on a few points that some members across the House have made this afternoon. So they've raised concerns for example about the importance of considering the difference in value of fish. So we heard pilchards and tuna for example and this is important—absolutely—but the primary legislation so in the Act is not the place to put these matters. They're going to need to be changed frequently which means we need them in the secondary legislation because otherwise every time we're going to have to make these updates around the value of certain fish we're going to have to bring it all the way back through this parliamentary process. Putting it in the regulations is absolutely the appropriate place to put it because it allows that flexibility and that expediency in making those amendments which gives certainty to the industry.I'd also like to point out that some of the concerns were around what the value then means in terms of potential penalties that fishers might face. As my colleagues across the House have mentioned we did as a committee extensively question officials and submitters on this point. What we heard back from officials quite clearly is that they follow what's called the Voluntary Assisted Directed Enforced model of enforcement. So that is they go in at entry level which is voluntarily so working with the fisher on the ground or on the sea to make sure that they understand their obligations and that they are taking voluntary steps towards improvement. Then from voluntary the next step up is assisted and that's a little bit more hands-on. Then we go to directed and then we go to enforced. So unlike what my colleagues might have the House or listeners at home believe the ministry will be working with fishers long before it gets to the point where fishers are being fined or prosecuted so I am confident that we have got the balance right here in this bill.This bill as we've discussed also tightens the rules around landing and disposal—that's around what fish can be caught. It's also going to improve the effectiveness of the roll-out of cameras on boats. So in terms of improving the sustainability of our fishing industry I wholeheartedly commend this bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call—Barbara Kuriger.