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Lower Yorke Peninsula Marine Park Draft Management Plan Summary Lower Yorke Peninsula Marine Park Draft Management Plan Summary Government of South Australia www.marineparks.sa.gov.au South Australians have a proud history of conserving our wild and natural places. Our National Parks and reserves are icons that hold countless special memories and link us to our natural history. Now it’s time to turn our attention to our coastal waters. Southern Australia’s waters are home to an South Australia’s marine parks have been a decade amazing diversity of marine life, with about 85 in the making. When zoning comes into effect, they’ll per cent of marine species found nowhere else in help protect our most precious marine areas while still the world. However our waters are not immune to allowing South Australia to prosper. You and I will global challenges such as pollution, resource use, still be able to enjoy our favourite pastimes, including development, pest organisms and climate change. recreational fishing which has been crucial to the design Marine parks with sanctuary zones will help us protect of these parks. our marine environment from the increasing pressure it The journey that’s brought us to the draft management is under. Currently only about 1 per cent of our coastal plan (summarised in this guide for you) has been the waters are under high-level protection. By setting aside most comprehensive public engagement program in additional areas as sanctuary zones we are making an South Australia’s history. In that time we have worked important investment for the future. with 14 local advisory groups, the conservation sector The Lower Yorke Peninsula Marine Park is home to the and various fishing groups, as well as listened to more Troubridge sand island and the surrounding shoals, than 30,000 South Australians. which are shaped by the tidal currents that race into the Now it is your chance to review these draft plans and gulf, with the waters being home to a range of sponges make a submission if you wish. This summary brochure and other filter-feeding animals that thrive in the high contains the essential details for how we propose to current conditions. The cliff habitats from Troubridge zone and manage the Lower Yorke Peninsula Marine Point to Port Moorowie provide important nesting sites Park and how to make a submission. for seabird species including the white-bellied sea eagle Copies of draft management plans and other and osprey. supporting information for each of the 19 marine parks The proposed sanctuary zoning connects the Point are available at www.marineparks.sa.gov.au, at public Davenport estuary conservation park with the extensive information sessions across the state or by telephoning seagrass meadows of Sturt Bay, providing a protected freecall 1800 006 120. area well away from the highly popular Edithburgh We have been determined to get the balance right boat ramp and Troubridge fishing grounds. between community needs and conservation. Some of the special places, plants and animals to get Experiences elsewhere have shown that community high level protection under this plan include the only ownership of marine parks is central to their long-term two estuaries on the peninsula; Salt Creek and the success. nationally listed wetland, Point Davenport. Both are With that in mind, I encourage you to carefully consider highly fertile bird and marine habitats with sheltered the Government’s proposal and to have your say. bay environments that provide nursery areas for many commercially and recreationally important fish species, including King George whiting and yellow-eye mullet; and feeding and resting grounds for local and migratory shorebirds on Troubridge Island, where more than 40 species of shorebirds have been recorded. Hon Paul Caica MP Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation HARDWICKE BAY Hardwicke BayMarine Park 13 - Lower Yorke Peninsula 137°10'E 137°15'E 137°20'E 137°25'E 137°30'E 137°35'E 137°40'E 137°45'E 137°50'E 137°55'E 138°0'E 138°5'E S S ' ' Stansbury 5 5 5 5 ° ° 4 4 3 3 What the zones do and why Point Turton Klein Point SPA-2 Where can The Key Activities and Uses Guide summarises the major GMUZ-1 Wool Bay recreational fishers activities permitted in each marine park zone. Warooka S S ' ' 0 0 ° ° 5 wet a line? 5 3 General Managed Use Zones (GMUZ) Sanctuary Zones (SZ) prohibit the 3 Zone 3or 5 allow ecologically sustainable development removal or harm of plants, animals or Port Giles SPA-1 and use. marine products to provide a high level of Yorketown Coobowie Inlet SZ (1km2) Home to internationally important shore birds. GMUZ 3 conservation. Coobowie Fish nursery for commercial and recreationally One GMUZ is proposed, covering 8% of the SPA-3 sought fish species including whiting. HPZ 3 Lower Yorke Peninsula Marine Park. This The two proposed SZ are the core Inset zone provides for the commercial prawn conservation areas, covering 8% of this SZ 5 trawling activities in Gulf St. Vincent, park. Proposed SZ provide a high level of S S ' RAZ 5 mineral and petroleum leases, and shipping protection for species, ecological features ' 5 5 ° ° 2 5 5 Point Davenport SZ (71km ) Edithburgh 3 activities around Port Giles and Klein and habitats of conservation importance 3 Nationally important wetland. Sultana Bay Point. such as the only two lower Yorke Connected to deepwater sea grass that provides Port Peninsula estuaries of Point Davenport and habitat for species and stabilises the sea floor. Moorowie Habitat Protection Zones (HPZ) allow One of only two estuaries on Lower Yorke Peninsula. Coobowie. By protecting these estuaries the Fish nursery supporting popular table species including whiting. Sultana Point activities and uses that do not harm Point breeding and foraging sites for migratory Gilbert Troubridge Shoals Tapley Shoal habitats or the functioning of ecosystems. Sturt Bay shorebirds and nursery sites for several Waterloo Bay One HPZ is proposed, covering 84% of fish species that live in these wetlands of this park. The proposed HPZ buffers the national importance will also be conserved. S proposed sanctuary zones and helps to S ' ' Point Davenport 0 Adjacent the Point Davenport estuary 0 1 1 Troubridge ° ° Troubridge Hill 5 protect important seagrass, algae and reef 5 3 the SZ also protects extensive seagrass 3 SZ-1 HPZ-1 Point habitats (Troubridge Shoals and Marion meadows and deeper unmapped habitats. Inset Reef) as well as areas of unmapped Coobowie habitats. The location of this zone also Special Purpose Areas (SPA) allow Foul Bay helps to protect the breeding and foraging specified activities that would otherwise be HPZ-1 sites for migratory shorebirds, and a range prohibited in a particular zone. of species of conservation concern. The Three SPA are proposed for this park, design of the HPZ provides for the majority providing for the ongoing management of S S ' of areas of commercial and recreational the harbours and anchoring adjacent Port ' 5 5 1 1 ° ° 5 fishing importance, in particular, Giles and Klein Point. 5 3 3 recreational fishing at Edithburgh and Troubridge Point. SZ-2 Coobowie Bay Proposed activities and uses permissible in each marine park zone 0 1 are set out in the zoning tables, available in the Kms S S ' ' 0 South Australia’s Marine Parks Network Explanatory Document 0 2 2 ° ° 5 5 3 or at www.marineparks.sa.gov.au 3 For further map detail refer to the relevant boundary definition map in the draft management plan. 137°10'E 137°15'E 137°20'E 137°25'E 137°30'E 137°35'E 137°40'E 137°45'E 137°50'E 137°55'E 138°0'E 138°5'E Produced by Marine Parks Project Marine Park Draft Zoning Topographic Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources GPO Box 1047 Adelaide SA 5001 Sanctuary Zone Built Up Area Data Source www.marineparks.sa.gov.au Marine Parks, NPWSA, Habitat Protection Zone Marine Park Boundary Topographic Data, Coastline (median high water) - DEWNR 0 10 Aquatic Reserves - PIRSA Compiled 5 July 2012 General Managed Use Zone Existing Reserves under other Acts Projection Lambert Conformal Conic Datum Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 Special Purpose Area Coastline (median high water) Kms Adelaide © Copyright Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources 2012. (Harbor Activities) All Rights Reserved. All works and information displayed are subject to Copyright. For Major Road the reproduction Or publication beyond that permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth) THIS MAP IS INDICATIVE ONLY AND IS NOT written permission must be sought from the Department. Special Purpose Area INTENDED FOR NAVIGATIONAL PURPOSES Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information displayed, Minor Road the Department, its agents, officers and employees make no representations, either express (Anchoring) or implied, that the information displayed is accurate or fit for any purpose and expressly CONSULTATION NOTE: disclaims all liability for loss or damage arising from reliance upon the information displayed. The zoning is provisional and is subject to change following public consultation. Each zone has a specific identifier. Please include this identifier (e.g. SZ-1) and the marine park name when preparing written submissions. DEH MapID: 2012-6044 DEH St andar d HARDWICKE BAY Hardwicke BayMarine Park 13 - Lower Yorke Peninsula 137°10'E 137°15'E 137°20'E 137°25'E 137°30'E 137°35'E 137°40'E 137°45'E 137°50'E 137°55'E 138°0'E 138°5'E S S ' ' Stansbury 5 5 5 5 ° ° 4 4 3 3 Point Turton Klein Point SPA-2 GMUZ-1 Wool Bay Warooka S S ' ' 0 0 ° ° 5 5 3 3 Port Giles SPA-1 Yorketown Coobowie Inlet SZ (1km2) Home to internationally important shore birds.
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