Extraordinary Claims in Great Barrier Reef
Assessment Require Evidence

Walter Starck 17 March 2010 - Scant actual evidence is provided to support claims.

The authors declare no conflict of interest, yet all 21 are employed by or recipients of generous funding from GBRMPA and they are reviewing outcomes of their own findings and recommendations.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE USED BY DEWHA TO UNDERPIN DECLARATION OF THE CORAL SEA CONSERVATION ZONE

I will finish this discussion with a comment on the veracity of some publications that have been
produced by green groups in recent times in their attempts to justify their blatant advocacy for
no-take MPAs. For example, the publication by Pew Charitable Trust (2008) for a Coral Sea
Heritage Park is nothing but self interested advocacy for a cause that good science simply does
not support.

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Map of proposed Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas

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Assessment of the Coral Sea Fishery 2007

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Garrett interview transcript with Fishing World

Fishing World first requested an interview with federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett back
when the Rudd Government took power back in 2007. Repeated requests to his office over the past
few years finally resulted in a face-to-face appointment with the former Midnight Oil frontman in his
Parliament House office on Monday, February 8. Fisho editor Jim Harnwell headed down to
Canberra for an exclusive interview with the man who controls much of our fishing future.e

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VEGETATION MANAGEMENT IN QUEENSLAND

– A CASE OF CONSTITUTIONAL VANDALISM

Suri Ratnapala, Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Public, International
and Comparative Law, T C Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland

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Long-term trends in reef fish abundance in the Great Barrier
Reef World Heritage Area

There is concern that reef fish populations are being degraded by existing levels of fishing pressure. Although there is evidence that extreme fishing pressure can cause a rapid decline in targeted species, the available data suggest that populations of these species over the GBR region have not been reduced in the past decade by current exploitation levels. In the event that fishing pressure is, at some time, deemed to be a concern, the best management response in my view would be more effective enforcement of more concentrated and limited protected areas. The present system fails in having inadequate enforcement of widely scattered protected areas; regular fishing does take place on most supposedly protected reefs.

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WILD RIVERS ACT 2005 AND WILD RIVERS REGULATION 2007.

A SUBMISSION PREPARED AND SUBMITTED BY MARINE QUEENSLAND.

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