Goodbye Coral Sea

[TimiBoy]

OK folks,

This is a MAJOR worry. I have sent the final submission to Chris Ryan to have it linked to the SOBA website - it's too large to link here.

I don't have the time to read it's 39 pages right now, but I've been told it's bye bye fishing.

Time for a campaign on Anna's a$$ I'd say...

Cheers,

Tim

[Scott nthQld]

so whats the gist of what's going on Tim?

I've done numerous google searches and the most up to date info I can find is from 2006.

I'm currently drafting a letter to my local member to find out where I stand with the so-called 'new' Qld Labor Govt and I want to get answers on all the issues that concern me in one way or another. If I don't get the question answered directly, they'll be very busy indeed just dealing with letters, emails and phone calls from myself.

[FNQCairns]

From the bits i have heard the zealot group amcs (forget exactly their name) has been lobbying to lockout the deeper coral sea off to fishing In their 'opinion' pieces in the news this last 6 months or more, originally it was bundled within propaganda over shark numbers and resource extraction, oil and gos. All the relevant headless chook stuff applies, so Anna will take great notice as will Garret.

cheers fnq

[Scott nthQld]

dunno where they are getting their data from. All the lastest reports from AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science for those who are unfamiliar) all say that shark numbers are on the increase quite dramatically. Anyone who has actually been to the reef in the last 12 months, whether fishing or otherwise, would say the same.

[Scott nthQld]

spose its the same place they got all their other information....out of their arse.

[TimiBoy]

Send me a pm with your email address and I'll send you the document. It's a 6.2Mb pdf file.

Cheers,

Tim

[CreelReaper]

Hey Tim, is this what your are referring to?? It's been on the agenda for quite a while now if it is the same thing.

Website below....

http://www.amcs.org.au/default2.asp?active_page_id=562


Cheers

Shane

[TimiBoy]

It is the report which supports that.

Cheers,

Tim

[FNQCairns]

...oops wrong thread, fixed it.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll get the report up online to the SOBA site tonight. Sorry for the delay; I am just never still for 5 minutes anymore.

Chris

[Scott nthQld]

thanks Tim,

Well I started reading it, I lasted 1/2 hour before it was nighty night....talk about a boring read.

From what I could gather, all their 'science' points out is that there is very little fishing from all secotrs in the coral sea, but it should be closed before fishing increases. I didn't get through all of it though, I might have to load up on coffee and red bull this weekend and try to read it all then.

[oldboot]

The link to this issue was sent to me some time ago.......and yess this is a live issue.

I posted a thread about it a couple of months ago..and got very little response.

I have not read the report.... but.. the essence is they want to close off everything from the boundry of the GBRMP all the way out to the edge of teritirial waters......including all the off shore reefs.

This is a massive amount of area... you could throw victoria in there and still have room to drive tasmania past it.

We real need to jump on this one.....and it is a FEDERAL issue.

cheers

[Shane Boese]

OK folks,

This is a MAJOR worry.
Tim

Damm right about that Tim

I was reading a document and it stated the following.

The Proposal
Early last year, the Global Ocean Legacy,a project managed by the Pew Environment Group, identified Australia’s Coral Sea as one of a handful of places remaining in the world where a very large highly protected oceanic park could be created, protected, monitored and inforced. Pew, in partnership with other groups and individuals, proposes a large highly protected park between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and outer edge of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The park would encompass Boot Reef in the north and Cato Island in the south. The proposed park includes two existing Commonwealth National Nature Reserves: Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reefs. Together, these reserves cover 17,290 km of islets, cays and seabed. Both are managed to maintain ecological processes and systems and to protect the habitats and biodiversity of the eserves from the pressures associated with human use 3.We propose that these existing parks be incorporated into a much larger park using the Commonwealth reserve provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. This is the simplest and most logical mechanism for creating a large highly protected park in the Coral Sea. It would make sense to delegate the ongoing management of an Australian Coral Sea Heritage Park to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, with financial resources to enable effective monitoring, surveillance and enforcement by the Australian Customs Service and the Royal Australian Navy.


And


The Coral Sea is one of only a handful of places in the world where a very large oceanic no-take park could be created, monitored and supported by the overwhelming majority of citizens in a single national jurisdiction. – The Coral Sea has acted as a vital reservoir
for reef biodiversity during past periods of rapid change in climate and sea level. It is relatively free from the influence of land-based pollution that affects inshore and mid-shelf coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef, and has much lower levels of fishing. The creation of the Coral Sea no-take area will ensure that this region remains globally significant for the protection of tropical marine biota. – A very large no-take park immediately adjacent to the GBRMP and its network of highly protected areas would be by far the world’s largest protected ocean ecosystem. It would: –Enhance Australia’s reputation as a world leader in the stewardship of marine biodiversity; –Make an unparalleled contribution to global marine conservation by setting a new benchmark for large-scale protection; –Enhance the World Heritage values of the Great Barrier Reef by reducing human impacts in the adjoining Coral Sea; and –Foster the growth of sustainable tourism industries.

[oldboot]

See here is one of the problems we face.

In the colonial era, we had people running arround looking for places to develop with little regard for anybody else, just because they were there.

In the conservation era we have the same thing happening, but we have rabid concervationists looking for places to protect with little regard for anybody else just because they are there.

they are not interested in sustainable management they just want to "protect things" which means shut them up.

These are the same people who will not prune a tree when it needs it.

they are just looking for every opportunuty to protect and shut things up.

cheers

[CHAPPY]

Are these the same people who will not get part of the blame for the Victorian bushfires but should? Dont listen to the Aboriginals who have been fire managing this place for 40,000 years. My 3 years at uni makes me smarter. But when the proverbial hits the fan, hide behind your preferential voting mates in government.

Lock it up. Dont use it.

The illegal overseas fishermen will love it. Nobody allowed to go there means nobody to report them. They can clean it out with little fear of being caught.

As for Bob Brown, at least he knows when he is being shafted. We haven,t woken up yet.

Not a happy-Chappy