The bill seeks to address the issues of both legal and illegal discards by simplifying and strengthening the current rules around what fish and aquatic life can be landed and what can be returned to sea. In response to these new rules, the bill proposes to introduce new graduated offences, rules to improve the effectiveness of on-board cameras, and related cost-recovery arrangements, and it also makes some changes to enable quicker decision-making in respect of fishing, perhaps within a fishing year, in a way that will be good for the industry as well as the environment. The bill also proposes to introduce a new defence to allow commercial fishers to lawfully return catch to the sea when necessary to save protected species. Strangely, that's currently illegal. 