Dear Minister Jaensch,

I care about Tasmania's ocean environment and am extremely concerned about the decline in the health of our oceans.

I urge you to make the following changes so we can continue to see our marine life and oceans thriving into the future: 

• Implement a new stronger marine act that can encompass all ocean uses and users in a holistic interactive way that safeguards our marine life, jobs, fishing and culture.
• Implement a Marine Plan for Tasmania, an integrated ecosystem-based ocean management framework that uses Marine Spatial Planning.
• Ensure fishers are able to continue to fish into the future by adopting sound management tools for sustainable fisheries such as harvest strategies.
• Safeguard our island lifestyle, coast and waters by committing to more marine habitat restoration and protection.
• Enact the precautionary principle in all planning and management of Tasmania's ocean environment.
• Acknowledge climate change impacts on our ocean environment, and prepare to mitigate the risk to marine life and those that rely on marine resources.
• Engage meaningfully with lutruwita’s Traditional Owners in decision-making related to ocean management that upholds the standards of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
• Implement genuine community engagement in ocean planning, for example Co-Design, as has been used successfully in Victoria.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing how you and the Tasmanian government will rise up for Tassie’s oceans and deliver these important changes.

Sincerely,