GBRMPA Closures Feedback Form

[Vern_Veitch]

Fill out your response to the GBRMPA Representative Areas Program on the web. Visit http://www.seamedia.com.au/index.html and follow the links.
Vern

[Vern_Veitch]

Sunfish have been asked by many to provide advice on how to fill in the GBRMPA Feedback Form on No Fishing Areas.
Here it is.
Sunfish Queensland How To Vote Card.
Q1. Fill out form according to your interests.
Q2. No. I support a small area (less than 5% of each bioregion) of the GBRMP to be declared pink (preservation or no go), am happy to see an increase in yellow and support dark blue.
Q3. The impact of other on-site uses is significant. Also the ability to police these extra areas does not exist and no funding has been identified for increased enforcement. Most recreational fishers will not be able to accurately identify if they are in a no fishing zone in offshore waters.
Q4. Habitat impacts including run-off, coastal development, trawling, inshore netting, and the importance of connectivity to adjacent terrestrial and marine habitats.

NB: Other questions are about your personal situation.

[Lucky_Phill]

Thanks for the heads up Vern. Survey completed and on it's way.

[Vern_Veitch]

Onya Phill.
The greenies reckon that one local federal member has over 1000 messages of support.
Rec fishers will get done on this issue unless they all get off their bums and do something for themselves.
Numbers count and the greenies know it.
Vern

[whiteman]

Vern

Your URL points to seamedia who are collecting submissions on behalf of Sunfish. Like many out there, I am not in complete agreement with Sunfish. So I get my own point across to GBRMPA, I have logged my submission directly on their website which is www.gbrmpa.gov.au.

[Jack_Lives_Here]

Jobs done.

[jaybee]

same as above thanks vern

[Fisherman02]

on it's way

[The_Walrus]

All done.

Now, will they actually take it "on board"

Luc

[bugman]

Vern
I sent off a submission of my own through the GBRMPA site.
Were others that went through your site required to accept the email reply.
Did you clear the subject field and type "accept" or did you just add "accept" to the end of the "re:GBRMPA submission ..."
bugman

[Jack_Lives_Here]

I cleared the field and typed "Accept".

[Beggsy]

Vern,

Done - good luck

[Vern_Veitch]

Thanks ladies and gents. Getting there slowly at present.
Matters no if you do not fully agree with the SUNFISH view. Put in your own words.
Please use the blank form at www.seamedia.com.au and not those forms that may have been set up on other sites.
Seamedia is forwarding them and I am entering them on a spreadsheet to get some sample results of the recreational fishing fraternity. They are then being sent on to GBRMPA anyway.
Vern

[LYNDO]

Cheers Vern,

Received my paperwork/forms today in the mail.

Informative and fairly well presented I thought,would've cost a pretty penny to print.

Filled out and back in the post again!

Cheers Lyndo

[Vern_Veitch]

Thanks Lyndo and all those who have filled out the forms but we need lot's more.
Time is now running short. If you are reading this and ever intend fishing in the Great Barrier Reef then take the time to fill out a form and get it back to me or GBRMPA before 7 August as you can bet the greenies will and we will get little consideration from them.
Vern