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What advice, briefings, aide-memoires, reports, or other documents, if any, does MPI hold relating to any decision, recommendation, assessment, or consideration not to advocate for, pursue, develop, or recommend increasing the legal protections available to fisheries observers, as per the recommendations of the 2020 Schmidt-McCleave report on the abuse and harassment of fisheries observers to "Align legal protections for Observers with those in place for Fishery Officers"?

Answered Question 29020 (2026)
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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

Question

  • What advice, briefings, aide-memoires, reports, or other documents, if any, does MPI hold relating to any decision, recommendation, assessment, or consideration not to advocate for, pursue, develop, or recommend increasing the legal protections available to fisheries observers, as per the recommendations of the 2020 Schmidt-McCleave report on the abuse and harassment of fisheries observers to "Align legal protections for Observers with those in place for Fishery Officers"?

Answered by

Hon Shane Jones

List MP · NZ First · Minister for Oceans and Fisheries

Answer

I am not privy to any MPI internal advice or documents.