Looking after Tasmania's Environment since 1968
 

Coastal and Marine Conservation

Introduction
Issues
Articles
Submissions

Introduction
Tasmanian waters is home to some of the most spectacular marine life and best diving on the planet.

The Tasmanian Conservation Trust has been working for the protection of the marine environment for many years.

The TCT has been involved with issues relating to marine reserves, aquaculture, water pollution and fisheries management.

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Weedy Seadragon
ŠJon Bryan 1997

At the State level, the TCT is represented on bodies such as the Scalefish Fishery Advisory Committee (FAC), Scallop FAC, Crustacean FAC, Abalone FAC, the Marine and Marine Industries Council, the Seal Forum and the Marine Recreational Fishery Council. At the national level we are represented on the Shark Management Advisory Committee (MAC) and Scallop MAC.

Issues
There are some major conservation issues in Tasmania's marine environment. These links provide more information.

Gunns Proposed Pulp Mill
D'Entrecasteaux Channel Aquaculture Expansion
Recreational Gill Nets - An Environmental Disaster
Sea Urchin Threat to Tasmanian Rocky Reefs
Tasmanian Marine Protected Areas Strategy

Articles
Here are some articles on marine conservation that originally appeared in the TCT newsletter:

Imported Abalone Disease Risk Investigated
Seals are NOT to Blame for Declining Fish Stocks
Tasmania's Giant Kelp Forests - Going, Going Gone?

Submissions
Below are a series of links to a selection of submissions relating to the marine environment. Most are available as downloadable PDF files.

Date
Topic
Submitted to:
6/3/06 South-East Marine Protected Area Process
(PDF file/32 KB download)		 Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
29/11/05
Resource Planning and Development Commission
9/11/05
Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
7/11/05
Dept. of Primary Industry and Water
20/10/05
Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
22/9/05 Small Pelagic Fishery Bycatch Action Plan 2005 Revised Draft
(PDF file/13 KB download)		 Australian Fisheries Management Authority
12/8/05
Draft Recovery Plan for handfish
(PDF file/28 KB download)
Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
30/6/05
Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
5/6/05
Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
7/2/05
Dept. of the Environment and Heritage
29/9/04
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
29/8/02

Draft Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan
This relates to the integration of several Australia's southeast fisheries.
(PDF file/12 KB download)
Australian Fisheries Management Authority

August 2001
Basslink Joint Advisory Panel
17/11/99

Proposed 3 year Management Regime for Syngnathids (seahorses, pipefish, pipehorses, seadragons etc) taken in the South East Trawl Fishery
(PDF file/20KB download)
Environment Australia
October 1999

Review of the Marine Farming Planning Act 1995
(PDF file/138 KB download)
Dept. of Primary Industry, Water and Environment
November
1997
Dept. of Primary Industry and Fisheries


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Bottlenose Dolphin  ŠJon Bryan 1997
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