Trish is a professional and experienced advocate, and has more than a decade of fisheries management experience.

She has worked on issues from sustainability reviews to policy management to public rights, and is extremely dynamic in her ability to spread information and increase public awareness.

Naturally, she brings an extensive network of well-developed, positive working relationships with recreational fishing, tangata whenua and environmental interest groups.

Growing up in a Samoan family Trish knows in her bones that Polynesians are hard-wired to eat kaimoana so she does her best to ensure all Kiwis have access to good, healthy food from the sea.