Utikere Tangi; Cameron Mark; Abel Steve; Jones ShaneTANGI UTIKERE (Labour—Palmerston North): Can I ask the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries if he's able to elaborate on the time frame around his thinking around the next steps around cameras on boats given that he's indicated what his general sense of direction is. Moving to industry transformation plans (ITPs) and what he sees as the state of those ITPS: what learnings can be taken forward as a result of that exercise of pulling all of that information and people—not just the info but the people—together to put in place an industry transformation plan; and whether he agrees or not with David Wilson New Zealand First's Upper Harbour candidate who said at the pre-election World Wildlife Foundation debate that he agreed and celebrated what the ITP was for the sector?My final question in this particular phase is around—the annual review talked about the fact that fisheries was seeking more accessible information. My question to the Minister is: what does that mean what does it look like and what can people expect as a result of having more accessible information being made available?MARK CAMERON (ACT): I thank the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries for his time. Perhaps the Minister could enlighten the committee a little bit further on the technology that especially the coastal commercial fleet has implemented over the last few years and speak to if he'd be so kind the changes in net technology—the fact that it has gone from a four to a five to a six from a diamond to a square—especially in the mid-water fish space. And by virtue the technology that has embraced taking into consideration the bycatch limits and how onerous it is.Could the Minister also if he'd be so kind enlighten the committee of the rigours especially that the coastal commercial fleet suffers of operational cost and how that is affecting the table fish market.STEVE ABEL (Green): Thank you Mr Chair. I want to ask the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries about the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. Despite our nation New Zealand having put through a proposal for a 70 percent protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems including seamounts—which was actually a descent in the proposal of the whole body for 100 percent protection; we reduced it to 70—after the change of Government we refused to submit that proposal and in fact Australia had to submit it. New Zealand backing out from this was a cause of some significant annoyance to the United States and to Australia—to the extent that Australia considers it should now treat New Zealand as an opponent when it comes to managing fisheries in the South Pacific. Apart from the international embarrassment of this my question is: is the Minister committed to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation? Is the Minister committed to a Pacific-wide marine protection strategy? And as a general point is the Minister committed to marine protected areas at all? Has the Minister given any instruction to the Ministry for Primary Industries on marine protected areas?Hon SHANE JONES (Minister for Oceans and Fisheries): A very quick response: the member Steve Abel correctly identifies that our Government did change our stance in respect of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation although that relates to the fact that we're not going to carry on with this indiscriminate destruction of our fishing interest in international waters as was a hallmark of the last regime. We won't be having any of that. Neither will we pay any attention to MPs standing up here invoking provisions from overseas trade deals as if it's some type of bludgeon to undermine the democracy and the sovereignty of our legitimately elected Government. We're not tolerating and we're not agreeing with the outsourcing to overseas jurisdictions as to how we should run our resource management programmes. Go and talk to the Spanish about their own fishing outcomes before you lecture the matua.