Moreton Bay Marine Park - 30 to 50% Closures

[Derek_Bullock]

The following is an extract from the Australian Marine Conservation Society who are calling for 30 to 50% permanent closures of Moreton Bay.

Is this the beginning of the end for Moreton Bay as a recreational fishery. You be the judge. Don't sit back and wait for this one to happen guys and girls. Do something now.


Derek

The Australian government has committed to protecting our oceans through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Australia already has the biggest MPA in the world (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park) as well as the largest marine reserve in the world (Heard and McDonald Islands). Moreton Bay is also a marine park; however the current zoning of the park protects less than 1% of the area. This is 100% unacceptable.

The Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning is currently under its 10 year review. This is our opportunity to demand that more of the Bay be placed under permanent protection for future generations. AMCS believes it is necessary to have at least 30-50% of Moreton Bay within reserves (protected areas closed to all extractive activities). To help achieve this, AMCS will be organising a series of free community seminars in South-East Queensland to inform the public about the amazing animals that live within the bay and the issues surrounding its protection. The AMCS website will also provide a gateway for you to find out more about Moreton Bay as well as providing an easy way for you to contact politicians with your concerns and have your say.

http://www.amcs.org.au/campaigns/mar...on_bay_mp.html

[baldyhead]

BEND OVER BOYS AND GIRLS
The places that you are going we in FNQ have already been!

[Derek_Bullock]

BEND OVER BOYS AND GIRLS
The places that you are going we in FNQ have already been!

Very true Baldy.


Derek

[ian_cameron]

The only thing that will stop us being evicted from ALL our fishing areas is good old fashioned people power. This means VOTES. Tell all you family and friends that they will not be able to fish or crab or eat anything but imported farmed seafood from unregulated sources, laced with who knows what chemicals. if the GREEN movement has their way.

The radical GREENS have a lockout agenda to stop fishing altogether.

Tell everyone to vote against any government ( usually that former representative of the people - Labour ) or we can forget about taking the kids fishing on the weekend or on holidays.

Here in NSW we appear to be scre..d but in Qld you do not have preferences and can vote for who you wish . If you vote for the party that supports the GREENS and intends to lock us all out of every productive fishing area then you can't complain later, after they do it to you.

Look at The Fishing Party policies and action strategies to help save our Australian way of life. Otherwise I hope you like dreaming about lost freedoms and enjoy eating tofu.

Ian

[ian_cameron]

Look at the ECOfishers website. Support those fighting for US.

[ian_cameron]

Look at the ECOfishers website. Support those fighting for US.

[Panda]

Pity they dont try to protect the mangrove fish nurseries from developing canal estates for the rich.

I was in Thailand a couple of years ago where they have severely degraded their estuarine fishery. And now they are planting acres of mangroves along the mud flats. Perhaps if a developer wants to destroy an area of mangroves they should be made to fund the rehabilitation of another area 10 times the size with ongoing funding for management. Maybe we can learn from a developing country that has already been down this same road due to population pressure. But somehow I doubt it when there is some big money involved.

The oceans are like a farm with crops that can be harvested at a sustainable rate indefinitely provided you dont kill off your breeding stock of destroy the soil the crops grow in. With fisheries the mangrove swamps and shorelines are the soil that nurtures the new stock. Take that out of the equation and it wont matter what bag limits, size restrictions or closed areas you put in place, because the environment just wont be able to sustain the same biomass as before.

[Jeremy]

Can anyone find/does anyone know any more information about this "10 year review" of the Moreton Bay Marine parks? If there is such a review, then there must be a discussion paper going around which we should be able to get a hold of and be able to submitt feedback on.

Jeremy

[Derek_Bullock]

Can't find anything on the EPA Website however it was last zoned in 1997 so the review will have to be finalised by 2007. The way Government works however it should start in 2006 sometime.

Interesting though that this mob say that it is currently under its 10 year review.


Derek

[kc]

This is just a revist of what happened on the reef and for those who took the NIMBY approach....well....it's coming to a store near you.

One of the great travesties of this is that all the variuos (well funded) environmental lobby groups, who work hand in glove with the EPA, use the flawed example of the GBR closures as the benchmark for future zonings.

It will be 33% of Morten Bay, and Hervey Bay and everywhere else. Until the recreational fishing vote has more power than the green vote we will continue to cop it in the neck.

When we "finally" flex our political muscles it may be different but ultra green politics has a 20 year head start on "us" and 20 years of working their way into the decision making processes.

It is my pesermistic view that the deals will already have been done, long before public consultation ever begins.

All TFPQ can do is rattle the cage a bit but the forces working towards these closures are formidable, to say the least. Until I fish & I Vote, means, I vote for someone OTHER than the major parties...to whit The Fishing Party (Qld)...we are on a hidding to nothing.

KC

[fishingnottake]

so are they taking submissions from anyone apart fromt he greenies? where do we actually get input?

[Derek_Bullock]

It is my pesermistic view that the deals will already have been done, long before public consultation ever begins.

Thats just so true KC.

As far as being able to put submissions in you wont get a chance until they throw it out to public submissions but as Kev says, by then it's generally to late as the pollies and senior public servants have already done back door deals.


Derek

[Panda]

EPA, GBR and TFPQ ???

It doesnt help to get the message out to the masses when you use in-house abreviations.

Now tell me how stupid I am. To me EPA = Enterprise Partnership Agreement, and GBR is Great Britan. KISS= well you know.

[Derek_Bullock]

EPA = Environmental Protection Agency
GBR = Great Barrier Reef
TFPQ = The Fishing Party Queensland

[kc]

Sorry Panda.....used to using these on this site and most seemed to know them.

NIMBY : Not in my back yard

IMO : In my opinion

EPA : Environmental Protection Agency

GBRMPA : Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

RAP : Representitive Areas Program

TFPQ : The Fishing Party (Qld)

TFP : The Fishing Party


*&%^$%$ : Most politicians

Regards

KC