I hope everyone is having a great week!
During our last meeting we put some community engagement ideas on the table.
I am excited to share our first community activity will be the Clean Up Our Patch in July campaign – a great way to start our community engagement efforts.
I have registered our network with Clean Up Australia (they are providing gloves, bags etc) and reached out to John Hueston from Tasman Council who will organise rubbish collection after our clean up.
We also discussed heading to the Lufra afterwards for drinks and casual catch up for anyone who’s keen 🙂
Clean Up Event details:
Date: Sunday, 26th July
Time: 10:00am start
Location: Pirates Bay Jetty and Beach area (meet at Tuna Club)
No pressure to attend, but we’d love to see you there!
Some other ideas we discussed included setting up a stall at the Eaglehawk Markets with fishing sustainability information, fish measuring games for kids and demonstrations on proper fish dehooking and release techniques, we can continue discussing this at future meetings.
I am still working on setting up Facebook and Insta for our network. It’s a little tricky but I’ll persevere and let you all know when it’s up and running.
Last month’s meeting minutes are attached and have been added to the Google Drive: Eaglehawk Neck Marine Network – Google Drive
Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 23rd July at 5:30pm at the ENH Hall – perfectly timed to finalise the plan before our clean-up day.
Many thanks,
Ash
Bec.
Marine Campaigner
Environment Tasmania
0493 395868
I respectfully acknowledge that I am living and working both on Parradarrame Country and Muwinina Country. I pay my respect to their elders, past, present and emerging and admire the ongoing work they do in caring for both Country and Sea Country.