Hi all
Been a member for a short while but just enjoy sitting back dreaming of where you’re fishing and planning of how I can go there so this is my first post.
Suffice to say I've been a keen Rec fisher as long as I've also been a Commercial fisher. There is a balance for both and I applaud all efforts to sustain fisheries.
Here is a map of the 30% closures AUS wide: sorry but my two left hands have made the map small.
Note the grey zones.
Greens want Coral Sea fishing, mining ban
By Dea Clark
Updated 1 hour 38 minutes ago
Mr Brown says Australia cannot afford not to protect the Coral Sea. (User submitted: Naomi Brookfield, file photo)
• Map: Brisbane 4000
The Australian Greens Party wants to ban all commercial fishing and mining exploration in the Coral Sea off the Queensland coast.
Under the proposal the existing Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) would be extended to manage the additional million square kilometres of ocean.
Recreational fishing would be allowed in the western region of the proposed Marine Park, north of Cairns.
Green's Leader Bob Brown says Australia cannot afford not to protect the Coral Sea.
"The cost of not having a marine reserve into the future could be the loss of large areas of the Barrier Reef - if there was, for example, an oil spill of the sort we've seen in Montara off the west coast of Australia and in the Gulf of Mexico in recent times," he said.
Note this statement
Recreational fishing would be allowed in the western region of the proposed Marine Park, north of Cairns.
