Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker—a real delight to stand tonight and talk about this bill. I'd like to acknowledge you Sarah Dowie for bringing this bill to the House. It's going to be I guess your swan song my dear and it is unfortunate that this bill is not going to proceed. However I do want to offer a little bit of comfort in that this bill has merit but we will be working on this and it will be picked up and it will be continued on.So I just wanted to talk a little bit actually about sharks—great white sharks. Everyone here has talked about the particular issues and my colleagues are laughing at me down there but I wanted to talk about the fact that great white sharks are an endangered species. They're absolutely stunning. They are the apex predator of the sea. In fact when we change the habitat of a shark we actually change the whole ecosystem of that sea environment. What actually happens is when we begin to alter the environment around a shark or shark's habitat it actually creates a change in the breeding patterns and a whole pile of ecosystem effects. So having sharks having them well and clearly defined within where they are able to operate is really important. It allows for the stability and diversity of the ocean.So when we have a business that is putting chum—and this apex predator absolutely has this amazing sense of smell—into that environment what happens is that the behaviour of those sharks completely changes. So the behaviour is that when a boat comes those sharks know that food is going to be present. As a consequence they change their migratory patterns they change their patterns of habitat and they actually start to congregate. As a consequence the pāua divers tell us that in that community we actually are having more aggressive shark behaviour there are apparently more sharks in the habitat and this is also affecting the ecosystem. So it's really important that actually we look at supporting the long-term integration approach of our marine ecosystems. It's really important that we actually focus on what the marine environment needs.It's not just about a business and I do have to acknowledge that one of the things we need to know much more about sharks in this is that we actually don't know a lot about white pointer sharks. We don't know a huge amount but one of the things that the bill fails to recognise is the ability for those people who are researching to go into shark cages and to look at what's happening. So this bill is purely focused on business and a business model and giving the ability for a business to operate as opposed to also looking at other opportunities that might happen. As a consequence this means that we lose an opportunity to find out more about an ecosystem. We don't just throw some chummed up tuna into the water and get these sharks to behave like little puppies. We actually miss the opportunity to find out a little bit more about them.Now I understand absolutely that this is an exciting business. I have swum with sharks myself but the thing with those was that I was not in a cage and those sharks were in their natural habitat and we didn't disturb them. And so as a consequence it can be done but it doesn't necessarily have to be done in the way that this business is operating. So those are some things to think about in terms of the bill moving forward. We can't support this bill but it is a very interesting attempt. Thank you.