Tuiono Teanau; Wedd CatherineOceans and FisheriesCHAIRPERSON (Teanau Tuiono): Members just for members' information usually at this point we have someone nominated from the select committee to give a non-political summation of the annual review process—usually that's the chairperson. So do I have an honourable member from the Primary Production Committee to give that non-political summary of the annual review process?CATHERINE WEDD (National—Tukituki): I will stand up from the Primary Production Committee and speak to the annual review that we went through.Hon Rachel Brooking: Where's the chair?CATHERINE WEDD: I'm not the chair of the Primary Production Committee—no I'm not but the chair doesn't appear to be in the Chamber currently—but I am a very strong member of the Primary Production Committee and I have had a very long involvement in the past six months on the Primary Production Committee.But we certainly went through the annual review and I would like to acknowledge our members of the Primary Production Committee for all their input on that annual review with the Ministry for Primary Industries. It was a long long review where we looked at many areas and particularly in relation to fisheries and ensuring that we have a very strong export industry. This was a lot of the focus of our annual review when it came to the Ministry for Primary Industries. We looked at many areas around trade and export and looking at the Government's objective of ensuring that we double our exports in the next 10 years and looking at ways that we would do that by doubling the value of our exports in the next 10 years.Part of that was ensuring that our food producers are more equipped and that is also looking at our fisheries sector where we want to ensure that we're making some amendments to the Fisheries Act 1996. The changes on that included clarifying commercial fishing rules that set out which fish must be brought back to port and which fish can be returned to sea. Looking at on-board cameras was another area where you know we looked at ensuring that we are better equipping our fishing industry to ensure that we can fish in our waters and ensure that we have this high-value added-value fisheries industry and making sure that it is sustainable as well—a very very important focus.We talked about some of our areas—me coming from Hawke's Bay we have a strong fisheries industry there which is really really important to support that industry. But also looked at you know areas which are restrictive around fisheries and bottom trawling was another area that we also discussed through the annual review process. We had a few comments that were made from our Minister for Biosecurity and Food Safety and the Associate Minister of Agriculture as well.But particularly looking at our fishing industry the Ministry for Primary Industries highlighted two pieces of work regarding bottom trawling in New Zealand waters and they consulted on a lot of this. So those were areas that that we focused on. But also I think one of the main things is to look at the fact that we have got this great resource here in New Zealand and we've got a great resource you know around in our waters and we've got potential to add a lot of value to our fishing industry and ensure that—Hon Rachel Brooking: Oh I like this shout-out in the industry transformation plan.CATHERINE WEDD: —is that— no but this is what was spoken about during the Ministry for Primary Industries annual review process and the fishing aspect of it because you know we spoke about a lot of things during that annual review. But fisheries is certainly acknowledged as an important export for New Zealand and there's a lot of great work going on there. And I would like to acknowledge the Ministry for Primary Industries for a lot of the great work that they're doing in this area and for their vision and focus.So on that note I think we've got a lot of opportunity and it was great to speak about that as a committee and it was great to be on the Primary Production Committee really focusing on our New Zealand fisheries.