Mr. Brian Beckett:

Specifically in relation to nitrogen and our estuaries, there are certainly challenges. We have a brief in respect of fish. Fish that are migratory, including species such as salmon that travel out to sea, have to go through these environments to get to their feeding grounds. Due to climate and other challenges, even when they get to their feeding grounds, they are not guaranteed a meal, unfortunately. We believe that is what is happening.

Those environments where water quality is impacted, in particular, the estuarine environment, are a kind of bottleneck for our migrating fish species. On nitrogen in particular, in some of the challenged catchments, there are serious challenges for water quality, excessive plant growth, etc., which are associated with nitrogen.

When we get the equation right in our catchments on the land side, we will get the equation right in our marine environment as well. Some of the really endangered species, such as salmon, are down to 2% in returning fish, but would have had 15% in recent enough years. We will then get a better return, or we will at least give them as good an opportunity as possible for survival. That is where we are coming from regarding fisheries.