Who Should Administer & Manage NSW Marine Parks & Why?

[CEO]

8/2/09. TOPIC. WHO SHOULD ADMINISTER & MANAGE NSW MARINE PARKS & WHY?
                  Should it be DECC (Dept Environment & Climate Change) or NSW Fisheries?
  Over to all of you.

[row]

Currently we have the Marine Park Authority, the Dept of Fisheries, the NSW Maritime and the Police, why not create a couple more departments to have fun on the water at our expense, after all the more peolple the minister has under his control the more important he is, in politics it's called empire building, or feathering your own nest, or sticking your snout in the trough and gorging as much as you can. In any terms it is duplicating bureaucracy and a blatant waste of taxpayers money.
The DECC should be called the Department of Pandering to the greens.
The MPA should be dismantled and the duties assumed by the department of fisheries, where the experts currently work.

[Open Oyster]

  Who cares with this government they wouldn't get it right. There would always be some green group they are pandering."Buying" votes buys bad government. Green preferences will always have strings attached. In the real world DPI should control Marine Parks Fishing criteria

[CEO]

DECC is staffed by terrestrial ecologists. NSW Fisheries is staffed with marine scientists and fisheries biologists. One department will know more about cuddly koala bears. The other will know the difference between Whiting and Wobbegong.
   Has anyone ever seen a cuddly koala as part of our marine biodiversity or gum trees as part of a marine ecosystem?
   We were all told "Government marine parks are to protect the biodersity, NOT to manage the fishery!
   Well, if drawing arbitary lines on offshore and estuarine maps and colouring the zones pink, yellow, blue or purple and telling the community you can't harvest here and you can't do that there, isn't managing the fishery, then what the hell is it??
        And what the devil do terrestrial ecologists know about marine biodiversity and ecosystems anyway?? (Is it only what the greenies tell them, like only 500 Grey Nurse sharks left in the east coast population?)
  So, who should administer and manage NSW marine parks, clearly NOT DECC - for they don't know what they are talking about! And that just might be why they continually find it necessary to lie to the community - because they simply don't know what they are talking about!
   What's wrong with the local community managing "their" marine park - or isn't that an option?
 The local community could take notice of their individual community submissions to the Zoning PLan and come up with a plan the community would and could support.  Or is that too democratic? Over to you again.

[CEO]

   ...hey, what about we give government marine parks to DOC's and then we can all get hand outs!

[CEO]

 ......    or as one wag has emailed, give government marine parks to Minister Joe Tripodi. He is on the way out and when he goes he can take their marine parks with him!
    We all hope fishing families never lose their sense of humour - no matter how bad things get!

[CEO]

        Well folks, what's the general consensus? DECC or NSW Fisheries? Have your say in the next day or so, because we are about to close this topic for the week and have a "new bone to chew," on Sunday evening.

[CEO]

                     Anyone want to suggest a new topic for next week? It is your website and your Forum. So suggest your topic, one that we can all relate to and have a raging yet informed debate about. Go on, we dare you! For example, "Have you ever considered assault with a baseball bat?" If you haven't you have never had any dealings with the government's Marine Park Authority! Now we can all relate to that!

[Open Oyster]

      Hey CEO. How about does "AcorF represent recreational Fishers or the Government and why"?
      May  be some of AcorF may suprise us.

[CEO]

   The perennial question recreational fishers around the state continually ask, "How can they represent us when we don't even get the opportunity to select or vote for them?" And that's from th minority who know about the minister's ACoRF. The majority have never heard of them!