South-east Marine Parks Advisory Committee Meeting #2 Communique 31 October 2019, Melbourne Member attendance Committee Meeting Overview Hilary Schofield (Chair) Emma Woodcock The second meeting of the South-east Marine Hank Horton Parks Advisory Committee (SEMPAC) was Johnathon Davey held in Melbourne on Thursday 31 October Marg O’Toole 2019. Michael Burgess Shannon Hurley The Chair provided an Acknowledgment of Tony Koslow Country, paying respect to the Traditional Owners of the land on which the meeting was Observers held. Parks Victoria Key agenda items for the meeting included: reminders of South-east Network zoning and the South-east Network management report; regulations. An annual business agreement is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and in place with Tasmania Police to provide Improvement (MERI) system for Australian surface patrols through priority South-east Marine Parks and a National marine parks. Communications and Marketing Strategy. A hotline is available for reporting suspicious National Offshore Petroleum Safety and or illegal activity: 1800 852 975 or Environmental Management Authority
[email protected] (NOPSEMA) representative David Ball attended as an invited guest to present an Science - Recent research includes overview of NOPSEMA’s role in the bathymetry and benthic habitat mapping in authorisation process for the offshore Freycinet, Huon and Tasman Fracture Marine petroleum industry. Parks. Final mapping products from the MV Bluefin voyage in March 2019 are in South-east Network Management production. Report Future projects include analysis of An update was provided on key activities Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) since July 2018. A summary of these include: footage from Freycinet, Huon, Finders and Beagle Marine Parks and a project to Authorisations - 11 authorisations issued undertake bathymetry and substrate mapping across non-commercial research (8), for Apollo Marine Park.