Science and Marine Parks in New South Wales: the hoodwinking continues

[Nete-Quette]

Bob Kearney, Emeritus Professor of Fisheries, University of Canberra


Background.
      
A reviewer of the first draft of this talk commented that I had unearthed seriously poor governance of marine parks in NSW. But why expose this in a public seminar? Why not take the matter up directly with the Government? Answering these questions unfortunately requires more detail on my personal activities in relation to this issue than I would normally consider appropriate. However, the questions do require answers.

[CEO]

  Emeritus Professor Kearney's review of NSW marine parks is becoming an annual event. Disguised as "science," the MPA's papers are merely designed to hoodwink the community that something is being done concerning the real threats and problems facing our coastal ecosystems and biodiversity. As Professor Kearney clearly points out, this is not the case at all. It is all a gigantic con and only the Greens have fallen for it! ECOfishers origionally described the MPA's so called "science paper," as "shonky science and rubbery data." And when the MPA documentation was reviewed by real scientists, we were proven correct again!
    MARINE PARK SANCTUARY ZONES ARE NOTHIJG MORE THAN UNJUSTIFIED AND      UNSCIENTIFIC FISHING CLOSURES!

[Open Oyster]

   Could anybody find any cuts to the N.P.A and MPA funding in the mini-budget? Have Labor just abandoning the independent enquiry into the MP sanctuary zones that will  disclose fraudulent science and misinformation has been used to create these unpopular and unscientific parks?
Lets hear your opinions!

[CEO]

  NSW marine parks are yet another classic example of bad governance, bad planning and bad decision making. Labor's marine parks don't protect any of the biodiversity or any of the ecosystems from any of the real threats to our marine environment. Tens of millions of dollars wasted for no environmental benefit whatsoever. Even the extremists have gone silent!