<your name>
<your return address>
<your city, state and zip>

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

<date>

Dear President Bush,

	Although your efforts to save the ocean resources are applauded, your market-based management system worries me.  The ocean is a dynamic ecosystem where each piece affects the whole.  Fisheries management must use a management approach that includes consideration of marine ecosystems, where the importance of habitat and trophic relationships are directly incorporated into the setting of fishing regulations. “Natural systems are wholes whose specific structures arise from the interactions and interdependence of their parts.  Systemic properties are destroyed when a system is dissected, either physically or theoretically, into isolated elements.  Although we can discern individual parts in any system, the nature of the whole is always different from the mere sum of its parts1.”   We must incorporate this system approach into marine management.  I look forward to hearing your ecologically sound management plans.

Sincerely,

<your name>

1.  Capra, Fritof, The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture. Bantam Books, New York, 1982.