Murray Cod Restocking Program

Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey) (15:00): My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. What is the status of the Murray cod restocking program announced in 2014 alongside the Minister for Regional Development and when and will it go ahead?

The Hon. T.R. Kenyon: You should say 'will' and then 'when'.

The SPEAKER: The member for Newland is warned for the second and final time. Grammatical points are the preserve of the member for Heysen.

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport, Minister for Racing) (15:01): Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, and I thank the member for Chaffey for the question and the great work he does for his local area. I will be up there on Friday at Loxton, visiting the Riverland once again. It's a very important part of the state.

The Murray cod restocking project is something that is still going ahead but, as I understand it, there's a lot of preliminary work that has to be done along the way, and some of that is quite technical. I am happy to give you some more information of exactly where it's up to, but I know that it's something that we did announce a while ago and that there is a lot of work to be done before we actually get to the stage of doing the restocking into the river.