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Six-Fold Increase to Protected Areas in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Volume 10, Number 1 Autumn 2004 ISSN 1321-7593 Print Post PP441412/00007 Six-fold increase to protected areas in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Kirsti Sampson, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority On 24 March 2004, the Commonwealth Senate passed expertise in the socioeconomic and biophysical aspects of the legislation to enact the new Great Barrier Reef Representative GBRMP. Local knowledge was essential to implementing these Areas Program (RAP) Zoning Plan for the Great Barrier Reef principles. Marine Park (GBRMP). The Draft Zoning Plan (DZP) was developed using the best The new plan is a culmination of over four years of intensive available information from scientists, government agencies, local work by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority communities, industry and other organisations, together with (GBRMPA). The plan includes a six-fold increase in highly information from the 10,190 submissions received during the protected areas (no-take zones). It will result in over 33% of the first formal Community Participation phase in 2002. GBRMP being protected within the world’s largest network The second formal phase of Community Participation was one of no-take zones, and will create a comprehensive ecological of the largest public consultations on any environmental issue in network representing all 70 bioregions within the GBR. Australia’s history. The Zoning Plan was developed in response to concerns that current levels of protection were inadequate to ensure that the • More than 10,000 packages of information, more than Great Barrier Reef remained a healthy, productive and resilient 50,000 submission forms, and more than 76,000 draft zoning ecosystem, now and into the future. maps were distributed throughout Australia. • Staff from the GBRMPA attended over 350 meetings with The preparation of the Zoning Plan was guided by ‘operational thousands of people from local communities, conservation principles’ developed by independent steering committees with groups, commercial and recreational fishing organisations, traditional owners, tourism operators, local councils, and state and federal politicians. CONTENTS • More than 35,000 ‘hits’ were received on the GBRMPA Six-fold increase to protected areas in the GBRMP ........................ 1 website from across Australia and the world. Reactions to the GBR proposals .....................................................3 • RAP media coverage included: Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan ............................ 5 – more than 60 radio and television news spots; New paper examines future scenarios for world’s – more than 450 newspaper items; and commercial fisheries .................................................................. 5 – 88 newspaper advertisements. MPAs and displaced fishing effort – policy statement released .......6 Trawlers’ rights ..............................................................................6 Information sessions were held in coastal communities from New total catch limits for 2004 for south-eastern fisheries ............. 6 Cape York to Bundaberg and were an integral part of the Demise of Orange Roughy points to trouble with second formal phase of Community Participation. The sessions deep sea fisheries ......................................................................6 were well attended and provided community members with an Coral catches in the South Tasman Rise Orange Roughy Fishery ... 7 Have your say in the government’s assessment of opportunity to find out more about the RAP and the DZP. commercial fisheries .................................................................. 8 The GBRMPA received more than 21,000 submissions on the Seal threat to fisheries overstated .................................................. 9 DZP. Many submissions contained detailed information about Seafood industry hooked on environmental management .....................................................9 changes to the DZP that individuals and/or organisations would Proposal to ban GWS products ......................................................9 like to see, together with support for many aspects of the DZP. Place your bets on the big birds: the ultimate flutter ...................10 In many instances communities worked together to develop Seabird agreement receives critical fifth ratification .....................10 workable alternatives to those proposed in the DZP. New marine mammal law could spearhead ocean recovery .......11 The GBRMPA assessed all the submissions and used the DEH seeks comment on wildlife conservation plan for migratory shorebirds ............................................................... 11 information to revise the DZP. Where submissions were not Defence committed to protecting the marine environment ......... 12 clear or needed further clarification GBRMPA staff undertook US Defense legislation affects marine life ....................................12 further consultations with stakeholders. The GBRMPA discussed Technology to help sea turtles ....................................................12 with community members that no one person or group should New sanctuary for Grey Nurse Sharks a step closer ..................... 13 assume that their views alone, or those of any other group or Permits for threatened species in Commonwealth areas individual, would be totally reflected in the final Zoning Plan; … and register of experts ....................................................... 13 although such a comprehensive and inclusive consultation Government urged to oppose crocodile trophy hunting ............. 14 process has resulted in a Zoning Plan that minimises potential United Nations report documents saltwater aquarium trade ........ 14 negative social, cultural and economic impacts to communities Threatened marine species to be assessed for protection .............14 and users of the GBRMP. What options exist for ballast water treatment? ...........................15 Tin-free anti-fouling paint patch trials ..........................................16 While the GBRMPA has been careful to minimise such effects, Marine pests get a cold introduction ...........................................17 there will be some impacts from the new plan. Officers from New report on non-trading vessels and the spread the Bureau of Resource Sciences and the Bureau of Tourism of marine pests .......................................................................17 Research have undertaken independent socioeconomic UN agency agrees to accelerate single-hull tanker phase-out … ..18 assessments in conjunction with the GBRMPA to quantify … and help combat marine pests ................................................18 the range of benefits and costs of the revised Zoning Plan, New marine farming report released ...........................................18 Farmed salmon more contaminated ............................................18 for all affected parties. These assessments formed the basis of The Australian Aquaculture Web Portal .......................................18 the Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) that was submitted Report on environmental regulation and aquaculture released ....19 to Parliament with the revised Zoning Plan. The Australian New book on marine mammals .................................................. 19 Government has agreed in principle to a structural adjustment Ocean health briefing ..................................................................19 package for commercial fishers and others who may be adversely Citizen Science Toolbox online ....................................................19 impacted by the implementation of the Zoning Plan. Aboriginal fishing practices in NSW .............................................20 The Zoning Plan is expected to come into effect from the Title recognised over gulf sea ...................................................... 20 middle of the year, closing a third of the reef to fishing and other Rock pool mission to save reef .....................................................20 Copper decimates coral reef spawning ........................................21 commercial activities. Valuing coral reefs: a travel cost analysis of the GBR ....................22 The new Zoning Plan, when allied with the GBRMPA’s International forum and NMEA conference .................................. 22 developments in sustainable tourism, frameworks for managing State pages ..................................................................................23 the environmental impacts of fishing, and advances in Important dates ...........................................................................30 catchment-based water quality management, will help ensure the protection of the GBR for future generations. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this Further information: See http://www.reefed.edu.au/rap/ (has publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect zoning maps) or contact Kirsti Sampson at the GBRMPA on those of the Commonwealth Government, the Minister for (07) 4750 0700 or [email protected] Environment and Heritage, Department of Environment and Heritage, the Chairperson of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, or the Director of the Biodiversity Group. All material In another step forward for protection of marine areas, in Waves may be reprinted unless it has been sourced from an the Tasmanian Government has declared two large-scale unidentified publication whereby no reprint is authorised except
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