What You Can Do

Everyone who cares about the health of the ocean needs to let their elected officials and Fisheries and Ocean Canada (DFO) know that it's time to move the PNCIMA process forward. Tell government that you want  to be engaged in that process.

Please write a letter or send an email to your local MP/MLA and DFO and tell them that the PNCIMA marine planning process is important for British Columbia and that you want to be engaged.

Click here for a sample letter for your MP/MLA

Click here for a sample letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

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Why is it important to do this?

The funding for the Oceans Action Plan was made available for two years (April 2005-March 2007), with the notion that in 2007 the federal government would allocate additional funds to keep the work moving. Unfortunately, in the 2007 and 2008 federal budgets, no funds were set aside to continue the work towards Integrated Management.

This is unfortunate for a number of reasons, but mostly because Canada desperately needs to change the way we are managing our oceans and its resources so that we can be sure the B.C. coast can continue to thrive well into the future.

Ottawa needs to hear from the people that work and live on the B.C. coast that the ocean and its resources are important to them and that they must be managed sustainably.