McLellan TraceyDr TRACEY McLELLAN (Labour—Banks Peninsula): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm just going to come right out and say it: Asparagopsis and neosaxitoxin. I will circle back around and explain but there was a suggestion earlier today that if someone was to inculcate those two words into their contributions they would earn a chocolate fish.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'll take your word that they are parliamentary terms.Dr TRACEY McLELLAN: They are parliamentary terms. And later on I will attempt to use them in a sentence just to shore up that chocolate fish.But in all seriousness it is a pleasure to take a call and make a contribution on the Thomas Cawthron Trust Amendment Bill at its first reading. I too like many people would like to commend my colleague the MP for Nelson Rachel Boyack for shepherding this bill through and also acknowledge the fact that it will be the Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee who will be no doubt providing a huge amount of rigour at looking at this particular bill.When I think about everything I know about the Cawthron Trust itself I have to acknowledge the fact that I've had to do a little bit of research. And it's not for the lack of bravado or the lack of promotion that the local MP has given it because it would be probably an exaggeration to say that she goes on and on and on about this particular trust but she does mention it quite frequently. And it has prompted several of us I think to make visits several of us to attend presentations when they've been here in Parliament specifically to sort of catch up with what it is that they do. This particular bill and why we're here today is that we need to support what is essentially a functional private bill and that's the reason that we're here.As my colleague Glen Bennett has just said it's a very straightforward way and a means by which to modernise the governance arrangements of the Cawthron Institute Trust Board and to allow for an additional trustee nominated by local iwi to join the trust board. In that sense I think that we should follow not only the lead of the institution itself but certainly the lead of the people that advocate for that. And when we think about the Cawthron Institute as we've acknowledged it's New Zealand's largest independent science organisation as we've heard on several occasions not just today but over and over and over again it's based in Nelson it was established about 100 years ago and it focuses on what can only be described as world-class science that supports the growth of New Zealand's primary industries and the protection of our marine and freshwater environments in particular. And it does that by concentrating its scientific research and its rigour and its main endeavours over five mains themes: and that's aquaculture seafood safety algae and bioactive freshwater health and also ocean health. As we've also heard Cawthron is one of Nelson's largest employers with a workforce of around about 300 highly skilled staff from all over the world. I think my colleague Naisi Chen listed all of the countries that many of those people are from which goes to show that there's a real understanding of the deep cultural significance of having a real melting pot of expertise and people and that no doubt contributes to the fact that they want to make sure that their governance and relationships reflect a more modern way of thinking about that.There are two things in particular that caught my mind when I looked up and did a bit of a Google search about what this particular institute does. And the first thing was that the Cawthron Institute—there's a piece of media that says Kaimoana but not as you know it" 16 November 2022. The Cawthron Institute has contributed to the development of what is called a "pāua saucisson"—I'm going to call it that—in collaboration with a company called NewFish. And it caught my attention because NewFish has created this high-end product which combines Akaroa kelp—of course Akaroa being from the beautiful Banks Peninsula electorate particularly caught my eye. And what they've done is pretty fascinating and I certainly can't do it justice in the small amount of time I've got to talk today. But I would really encourage people who are interested in science and who are interested in primary industries and the future of primary industries to go and to really research what they do.Before I finish let me go back to Asparagopsis. Asparagopsis research—and the only sentence I can put it in is that Asparagopsis research reduces methane emissions from cattle. I'm sure someone will have a much more working knowledge of it than me but it is one example of the pretty cool things that this institute does. So I have no hesitation to commend this to the House."