Sage Eugenie; Rurawhe AdrianHon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): E mihi ana ki a Tangaroa rāua ko Papatūānuku tēnā kōrua e te Māngai o te Whare tēnā koe. [I acknowledge both Tangaroa and the Earth Mother to the Speaker greetings.]Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface. They provide 95 percent of the space available for life. They regulate our climate. They have absorbed 90 percent of the heat from a changing climate. We have a marine environment that is 15 times the size of our land area and yet this Budget has not delivered for oceans and fisheries. We are a coastal people. Most of us live near the coast and 85 percent of our biodiversity is in our oceans. There is much in this Budget that the Green Party supports but like Budget 2021 2022 and now 2023 it does not deliver for oceans and fisheries. There's $102 million as part of Vote Agriculture Biosecurity Fisheries and Food Safety for oceans and fisheries and another $35 million which is recovered from the industry. But we know that ecosystems with the greatest biodiversity are much more resilient to climate change. Maintaining biodiversity should be a priority for fisheries management and yet the amount of funding for fisheries marine research has been stuck for years.We welcome the new multi-institution research hubs that Minister Verrall outlined and the fact that one of those hubs will focus on climate change and disaster resilience as part of a national centre for research on oceans climate and hazards but that's very much focused on that rather than biodiversity.We welcome the small amount of funding—some $10 to $18 million—for the roll-out of cameras on boats but we don't see any substantial increase in fisheries research. The level of funding for operational advice on sustainability and management controls in 2023-24 is the same as the current year—about $35.8 million. This static funding is despite the recognition by the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor and many others that we need to invest more in research. We've got a huge deficit in fisheries management big shortfalls in information about fish stocks about species bycatch and about the ecosystem impacts of fisheries.In 2019 only 160 fish stocks had been scientifically evaluated and there were over 200 stocks that hadn't even been assessed. How can we know if they are sustainable if they haven't been assessed? And we've got at least nine stocks that have collapsed. So we need a much better understanding of the complex interactions between fishing and other marine life about the cumulative pressures on ecosystems and how that can then translate into actionable policies and regulations. Yet we don't see this increase in Vote Fisheries nor do we see any significant increase in Vote Conservation for marine spatial planning. I was pleased that there is a small amount of funding which increases slightly for the Kermadec/Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary and progressing that bill. Perhaps we will see an announcement on that long-awaited ocean sanctuary. But we depend on our oceans for breath for life and we need to invest more in the marine environment.In Vote Conservation we see a number of performance measures for land but no specific ones for the marine environment. And yet we have in the industry transformation plan—the draft one for fisheries—the fishing industry proposing that there be $18 million spent by Government on buying three new fishing vessels. So we've got the industry pushing for more funding to provide vessels but not the Government recognising that we need to invest more in fisheries management and marine research. We've got a lot of goals that the Green Party would implement if we were in Government. It would increase the investment in oceans and fisheries; many more marine protected areas; reform of the outdated Marine Reserves Act—we haven't seen any action on that; implementing the commitments for marine protected areas in the Hauraki Gulf; and banning bottom trawling through the Hauraki Gulf so that we can have a healthy marine environment. Jono Ridler in his marathon swim of 33 hours—nearly 100 kilometres—did it for the Gulf. Now we need a Government with the political will to invest in oceans and fisheries and to take action to better manage our important marine environment and our oceans. Kia ora.SPEAKER: This is a split call—the Hon Willow-Jean Prime.