Allan Kiritapu; Rurawhe AdrianKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai. Usually I love listening to my colleague from across the aisle Erica Stanford and her contributions on conservation but in this instance that side of the House has things abysmally wrong. On this side of the House I guess this is another area—protecting our indigenous native fish species—which the previous Government for nine long years turned a blind eye to. Now on this side of the House we are tackling these long-term issues and we're taking not a short-term view not a do-nothing view; we're taking a long-term view an intergenerational view. We're looking at things 30 years down the track.Now I am one of these people—and my colleague Dr Duncan Webb might not like it so much but I'm a recreational fisher and that's why I'm quite pleased to speak to this bill this afternoon. A couple of weeks ago my father-in-law and I and my daughter who's two years old—we did what we do in preparation for the whitebait season. We walked up the Rangitaiki River. We looked at and we identified all the spots and we watched the other whitebaiters who are getting ready for the season that opened up a week ago. We identified our spots we looked at the river and we do what we do every single year as do many whitebaiters up and down this country. Being a recreational fisher whether that's on the sea or in fresh water it's inherent to our DNA. It's something that we enjoy the privilege of but we take the responsibilities very very seriously. In my own little patch of the world where I live quite close to the Rangitaiki River it is a significant responsibility that we all feel and we seek to practise those kaitiaki responsibilities. If we see a spawning ground that isn't where we go drop our nets but that's not the law. That's not the rules. We don't have regulations around that. So I want to commend what the Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage is doing in this area because what she's doing is ensuring—now my daughter Hiwaiterangi she's coming out this weekend. We'll be whitebaiting. We won't be selling it; we'll be taking a little bit for our family. She'll be learning how to whitebait. She's learnt how to set the hīnaki the eeling traps and she'll learn those practices from my father-in-law from me and she'll go on to practise those hopefully when it comes her turn.But what we want to do on this side of the House—we want to make sure that her right to do that in 10 years' in 20 years' in 30 years' time is protected. Now I would've thought that that's a pretty common-sense approach. I would've thought that what we're trying to do here is pretty balanced. It's a reasonable thing that we're trying to do to understand the state of those fisheries ensure that we've got good regulation and protect the right of all New Zealanders to practise those practices in the future.I don't have too much more to add to that but to say that we're taking a common-sense approach. It's pragmatic it's balanced and we're thinking in the long term for next 30—Hon Andrew Little: It's a balanced approach.KIRITAPU ALLAN: It's a balanced approach; that's exactly right and I'm proud to do that under the leadership of our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Tēnā koe.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Hamish Walker—five minutes.