Minutes of the BOIMP MPA meeting AND Doubtless Bay Marine Protection Group’s Discussion Document Questionnaire

From the Doubtless Bay Marine Protection Group:

Attached are the minutes of a meeting held (10th Feb) in the Bay of Islands on the upcoming Marine Protected Areas (MPA) forum for our bioregion - this area runs from East Cape to North Cape and down to Ahipara.

The forum to decide on MPAs for our bioregion is expected to have a chairperson and up to 14 members to make decisions for, and represent everyone in this region and 10 sector groups, including tangata whenua, commercial, recreational and environmental interests.

The expectation is that within 3 years we will be establishing these MPAs and the amount of consultation looks like being one public meeting in each area (budgetary restraints!!!!!!!). For more information on now the MPA process will work, click here.

MPA meeting BOIMP_10Feb2009.pdf

In response, we need to make our own decisions before things are imposed on us by the bureaucrats in Wellington. This reinforces the urgency for anyone concerned to fill in the questionnaire in the Doubtless Bay Marine Protection Groups discussion document:

DBMPG_questionaire.pdf

If you don't have a copy of the supporting discussion document it can be found on our website - www.livingseadoubtlessbay.org.nz

Please send the completed questionnaire to:

Doubtless Bay Marine Protection Group
Te Roopu Whakahauora o Tokerau
PO Box 503
Kaitaia 0441

Thanks for your participation

Doubtless Bay Marine Protection Group