Sage Eugenie; Parker DavidHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): Thank you Mr Chair. I'd like to turn to oceans and fisheries. The Minister recently released seven Cabinet papers and announced the vision objectives and principles for the oceans and fisheries portfolio. I would be interested in how the Government's vision of ensuring the long-term health and resilience of ocean and coastal ecosystems including the role of fisheries is to be implemented because there doesn't appear to be any specific funding allocated in the Budget for the Oceans Secretariat. And in terms of the appropriation for fisheries in 2021-2022 it's still at $72.6 million which was actually less than was spent last year. So the questions are: what expectations and outcomes does the Minister have for the Oceans Secretariat what does he expect it and its parent agencies to have produced by the end of the financial year and how is the vision going to be implemented if there is no specific funding provided? And if I'm missing something has some funding been provided?Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for Oceans and Fisheries): The objectives that we also announced when we set out the vision that the member has just quoted is to promote an ecosystem-based approach to research monitoring and management. Of course there's already money in the system to do that if we just take a more ecosystem approach to its allocation. To establish a spatial planning framework that optimises the protection and use of marine space and resources—our most recent example of that was our response to Sea Change where we've protected various parts of the Hauraki Gulf restricted trawling to trawl corridors and had various other quite complex changes to fishing rules. And the third objective was to support the development of a high marine economy that provides equitable wellbeing benefits. And there are various principles that underlie that.In respect of some of the changes that we're already making in this regard we of course have the benefit of the report of the Chief Science Advisor that came out earlier this year. We've already begun implementing some of the recommendations in that report. I think the three most notable ones that we've announced so far this year are cameras on boats—cameras on boats were supported by the prior National Government following operations Achilles and Hippocamp which showed high levels of illegal activity in the fishing industry and also high levels of legal dumping of fish as well. The illegal unreported dumping of fish was of great concern to the then Minister Hon Nathan Guy who said that we needed to use technology to bring transparency to these practices. Unfortunately neither National nor we were able to in our first term of Government fund all cameras in boats although we did fund some cameras on boats for boats fishing in the areas of the Māui dolphin but we've now funded that for approximately 300 vessels which I think covers more than 80 percent of the in-shore fishery by volume of catch.The second thing we've done is we're essentially banning with an exceptions regime the discarding of fish. So if you catch it you've got to land it as a commercial fisher with some limited exceptions—the likes of spiny dogfish that ammoniate and damage other fish.And the third change that we're making that's significant is we're changing the penalties regime as a consequence of that transparency and change to some of those other rules. So those are some examples of progress that we're already making.Hon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): So can the Minister confirm that the Department of Conservation and the Ministry for the Environment and Fisheries New Zealand will be doing all of this work from their existing baselines and that no new funding has been allocated in Budget 2021 to implement this oceans vision?Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for Oceans and Fisheries): Yes. And they already had obligations in that regardless. There's a new way of organising them to do that work. But the member is correct that there's no additional funding for that particular part of the work. The cameras on boats is a $68 million initiative. So that's a large amount of additional funding going into related enterprises.