Election year:
2023
Political party:
Green Party
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Water and Oceans
- Establish a well-resourced and politically independent Ocean Commission to develop and establish Te Tiriti-based ocean governance of our entire marine area, including the Exclusive Economic Zone and to advise Government on legislative, policy and institutional reform.
- Establish an Ocean Ministry to implement integrated marine management.
- Reform fisheries and marine protection legislation and establish a national, comprehensive, and coherent system of no-take marine protected areas
- Resource maturanga Maori organisations and promote the use of marine cultural health indices to empower community action and well-being to inform policy, management and operations.
- Stop any further degradation of marine and estuarine habitats through the extraction of natural resources.
- Phase out bottom trawling.
- Enable kaititakitanga, including upholding and underpinning Maori fisheries rights in the transition of the QMS to an eco-system-based management.
- Pass a new Healthy Ocean Act in the next three years.
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