Tasmania's marine parks

[sandfly]

  A publication  for Anglers Action Group reports:
 " TASMANIA SAYS NO TO MARINE PARKS
  The Tasmanian Government has completed their MPA process after looking at 14 proposed marine parks and zoning plans around their coastline. And the minister for primary industry and water, David Llewellyn, sent to all holders of recreational fishing licences, on  March 19th a letter which promises fishers that the State Government will not create, around Tasmania any new marine parks where recreational fishing is banned."
    Further to this AA writes
  "the Lennon Government has pledged never to agree to the latest recommendations of Tasmania's main planning body, the Resource Planning and Development Commission (RPDC), to establish 14  new marine reserves in the southeast".
    And further unlike, NSW Government strategy, they write,
    "Apparently, Mr. Llewellyn's letter to fish licence holders said" The Government's position is that it will not agree to recommendations that would adversely affect fishers. The Government believes that the management of fish stocks is very well administrated, it will not be agreeing to any recommendations that restrict or prevent traditional fishing activities of recreational or commercial fishers"
      Sounds like a government with some internal fortitude standing up against the radical greens. Maybe science will at last enter the debate. Then again could it be a grab for the numerous fishers votes?

[CEO]

   25/9/08. The Tasmanian Government announces and confirms fourteen new marine parks, off southern Tasmania.
  There will be NO FISHING RESTRICTIONS for recreational fishers in any of these 14 new parks. The Tasmanian Government considers the current management strategies in place under their Fisheries Management Act more than sufficient to protect the biodiversity. And the Greenies are spewing.
  Does anyone else remember the paper Professor Colin Buxton gave at a conference in Brisbane a few years ago, on marine protected areas? Dr Buxton is a leading light in Tasmanian marine science and fish biology and says marine parks should not impact adversley on recreational fishing. So it  seems the chickens have come home to roost in Tasmania too.
  Will there now be a mass migration of recreational fishers to southern Tassie? Seems they have got the science right!

[Pi]

Colin Buxton's report mentioned by CEO is an FRDC report, and can be downloaded from:

http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1644/1/FRDC_Final_Report_Internet.pdf

Phil

[Pi]

And the attached appeared in the April 2008 edition of Modern Fishing

[sandfly]

  Slowly but surely scientific research is showing (most world renown marine scientist have know this all along) that the lockup, lockout policies of the radical Greens just doesn't work in most marine parks and that fish management is the more reliable method of resource preservation.

[CEO]

  Thanks Pi. You are truly the keeper of the archives. As always, your efforts and contributions are most gratefully appreciated.

[CEO]

  When will the real marine science filter through to the terrestrial, ecologists currently managing NSW marine parks?