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The World's Largest Network of Marine Parks Is Here! From the DIREctor CREDITS&CONTACTS OUT OF THE BLUE 4 Darren Kindleysides Australian Marine Conservation Society A FIN FREE WORLD 6 PO Box 5815 WEST END QLD 4101 Ph: (07) 3846 6777 INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD SUMMIT 7 Fax: (07) 3846 6788 2012: Email: [email protected] A year for our oceans MORETON BAY LIFELINE 8 www.marineconservation.org.au Thank you for making a difference for Australia’s marine life in 2012. It has Patron PLASTICS POSTER 9 been a truly historic year for our oceans. You have been part of a year that Tim Winton changed Australia’s direction for good and for the good of our threatened sea AMCS Management Committee life, fisheries and marine habitats. SUPERTRAWLER STOPPED FOR NOW 13 President: Craig McGovern This year 2012 will surely go down as the year of the oceans. It’s not just that Secretary: Mary-Ann Pattison Australia created the largest network of marine reserves on the planet. It’s not MARINE PARKS NOW LAW 15 Treasurer: Michela Mitchell just that this network includes the single largest marine park in the world, in General Member: Sue Crowe the Coral Sea. General Member: Margaret Harlow VALE OCEAN Greats 17 General Member: Jill StJohn The year 2012 also saw the first ban on seabed mining – a relatively new General Member: Richard Leck and potentially devastating process that effectively strip mines the ocean CONTENTS SEA GUARDIANS: NEXT GENERATION 19 General Member: Amanda Newbery floor for metal deposits. The three year moratorium was brought in by the Northern Territory Government – the first administration in Australia to AMCS Staff take this ground breaking step. The NT Government also stood alongside Director: Darren Kindleysides Western Australia and South Australia in declaring new marine parks in state Coral Sea Campaigner: Fiona Maxwell and territory waters. Just this month the South Australian Government put Marine Campaigner: Tooni Mahto Northern Marine Campaigner: in place a network of marine parks across all their state waters, including In recruitment creating sanctuaries in spectacular places such as the Nuyts Reef, areas Great Barrier Reef Campaign Manager: around Kangaroo Island and the Coorong Coast. Felicity Wishart 2012 also saw some landmark progress towards making Australia’s fisheries Communications Manager: Ingrid Neilson more sustainable. For the first time gillnet fishing closures were brought Fundraising Manager: Karen Furnivall in off our southern coast to stop dolphins and sea lions being caught and Online Campaigns and drowned in fishing nets. Scores of threatened animals have been saved as Communications Officer: Jacki Boyce a result. And then there was the supertrawler. In its sheer scale this factory 5 6 13 16 Supporter Manager: Asia Armstrong vessel threatened to change the shape of Australia’s fishing industry to the Finance Officer: Tina Dalby detriment of local fish stocks, recreational fisheries and marine life. Again From the PRESIDENT Craig McGovern TTT Coordinator Australian decision makers made the right call in imposing a two year ban on its operation. Ingrid Neilson I am delighted to report that our southern seas 24hrs a day to send this issue and will be ramping up the on November 16th, 2012, blocks of frozen fish to Africa for campaign further in 2013. Editorial Committee These achievements alone are a major leap forward for the protection of the world’s largest system $1/kg. The Australian Government Ingrid Neilson, Darren Kindleysides, Australia’s oceans and our threatened marine life. They are a legacy for and Meanwhile, deep in the engine of the of marine parks came into law, right here recently announced that this industrial Jacki Boyce investment in future generations of ocean lovers and ocean users. But they good ship AMCS we have farewelled also add up to much, much more: a sea-change in how we view our sea. in Australia. That’s an additional two fishing vessel will be banned from some of our precious staff, including million square kilometres of ocean that operating in Australian waters for the Cover Photograph The advances we have helped achieve in 2012 signal a subtle but important Daisy Barham, Jess Abrahams and Wyan is now managed in (multiple use) marine next two years, until the owners can Socialising sperm whales in the Caribbean shift in direction. Governments across Australia are beginning to bring marine Carter, who have departed for great reserves. It encompasses 40 new fully prove that it can fish sustainably and not rubbing together to shed their skin. global adventures or to build their homes conservation to the fore. protected offshore marine sanctuaries, compromise our threatened marine life. Photo by Peter Allinson/Marine Photobank in Melbourne. We have been delighted Our challenge is to make sure we don’t look back on the progress in 2012 as which in total add up to an area the size This year was also the 45th anniversary to welcome Fiona Maxwell (Coral Back Cover an isolated step, but instead as a giant stride that built momentum for further of New South Wales. of the first campaign to save the Great Sea Campaigner) and Asia Armstrong Designed by and in memory of Paul Jones steps to redress the imbalance between the exploitation and the protection This is one of the most significant Barrier Reef. AMCS Director Darren (Supporters Coordinator) and Felicity of our seas. There are plenty of things that may trip up progress in 2013. Not moments in Australia’s environmental Kindleysides travelled to Ellison Reef near Wishart (Great Barrier Reef Campaigner) Graphic Designer least the huge threat that industrial development poses to the very future of history, and we acknowledge the Innisfail to celebrate this milestone with our in their place. Jacki Stone, jacstar design one of the world’s most iconic marine places – the Great Barrier Reef. If 2012 Australian Environment Minister Tony first Director, Eddie Hegerl and eminent Of course there’s still more to be done Burke, for his leading role in securing others. Read more on this on page 14. Paper was the year Australia regained its global crown of ocean leadership, 2013 to stop shark fin exports (see page six), this legacy. The process has been in the will be the year to ensure the jewel in that crown – the Great Barrier Reef – is Frustratingly, while we’ve protected recover our threatened species (page Printed on Recycled paper, making since the 1990s, and we would FSC Mixed Sources Certified not tarnished by new mega ports and shipping superhighways. our Great Barrier Reef in an extensive eight) and combat climate change (page like to thank you, as dedicated ocean marine park, it still risks being declared five), but we close 2012 with many lovers and AMCS supporters, for helping Printer Thank you once again for all the ways you have supported us in 2012. Your as “World Heritage In Danger” by the achievements. Thank you for helping achieve this milestone. Enviroprint Australia enduring support for AMCS and, more importantly, your belief and dedication UN as a result of the sheer scale and deliver them. Wherever you are on our We bring more good news on page 13 pace of proposed port developments beautiful blue planet, we hope you are The views and opinions expressed in this publication to the ocean’s cause have been an enormous source of inspiration to us in are not necessarily those of the Australian Marine this challenging, wonderful year. of Turning the Tide, with progress on and shipping expansion associated with having a relaxing festive season with Conservation Society Inc. All written material contained the re-named Abel Tasman, the Dutch- Queensland’s coal and gas export boom. family and friends. Thanks for another big in ‘Turning the Tide’ may be reprinted. Reprinted owned supertrawler that aimed to fish We have much, much more to do to on year. See you in 2013. material must include the name of author (s) and be Australian Marine credited to the AMCS ‘Turning the Tide’ publication. Conservation Society 3 out of the BLUE NEWS from around our shores Check us out on twitter for live OUT OF THE BLUE updates & news: @AustMarConsSoc World’s largest marine News from around our shores park needs world-class protection WE DID IT! The world’s The Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke recently set in law the world’s largest network of marine parks, including the jewel largest network of marine parks is here! in the crown, the Coral Sea Marine Reserve (now the world’s largest marine park)! The Coral Sea Marine Reserve is almost November 16th 2012 was one of the most significant days in the one million square kilometres, equating to an area of more than history of Australia’s oceans. It was the day that the world’s largest half the size of Queensland. This area will be free from oil and network of marine parks came into existence, right here in Australia. gas exploration, and as it is multiple zoned, half will be protected GOOD FISH from all kinds of fishing. This is a game changer for Australia. It will open the door to greater Project scientific discoveries, better tourism and jobs. The system of offshore We think the world’s largest marine park deserves world-class marine parks will act as an insurance policy for our seas. The science management, but it’s not quite there yet. There are some critical is proven. Fish stocks will be more resilient and fragile habitats will be AMCS will be launching an exciting new areas that have been left out of the protection zones, as this protected, such as shallow and deep water coral reefs. sustainable seafood information resource diagram (left) of Osprey Reef shows.
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