Coasts and oceans
Marine Bioregional Planning - timelines and getting involved
Marine Bioregional Plans are currently underway for each of Australia's five marine regions. Each region is up to a different stage of the planning process. More information about the timelines, contacts and a stakeholder consultation
There are now four Marine Bioregional Profiles available:
- South-West Marine Bioregional Profile
- North-west Marine Bioregional Profile
- North Marine Bioregional Profile.
- East Marine Bioregional Profile.
Coral Sea Conservation Zone
The Coral Sea Conservation Zone was established in May 2009 and provides interim protection to the area while it is being assessed for possible inclusion in one or more Commonwealth marine reserves through the marine bioregional planning process.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - new frameworks for protection, water quality protection plan
June 2009
- Western Australian Abalone Fishery - Call for comment closes Tuesday 14 July 2009
May 2009
- Coral Sea Conservation Zone - 19 May 2009
- Small Pelagics Fishery - Call for comment closes Monday 15 June 2009
April 2009
- Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery - Call for comment closes Wednesday 3 June 2009
- Queensland Coral Fishery - Call for comment closes Friday 29 May 2009
- South Australian Abalone Fishery - Call for comment closes Tuesday 26 May 2009
- Sedimentology and Geomorphology of the East Marine region of Australia - A Spatial Analysis - 2008
- New South Wales Ocean Trap and Line Fishery - Call for comment closes Monday 18 May 2009
- Victorian Abalone Fishery - Call for comment closes Monday 18 May 2009
- Whale Research - Blue Whale Study Inc permit application - Invitation to comment closes 22 April 2009
March 2009
- A national approach to addressing marine biodiversity decline - Report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council - April 2008
- Connectivity of black cod Epinephelus daemelii between Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs (as measured by population genetic structure based on microsatellites) – 2009
- National Assessment Guidelines for Dredging 2009
- Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery - Call for comment closes Friday 17 April 2009
- Northern Territory Finfish Trawl Fishery - Call for comment closes Monday 6 April 2009
- Northern Territory Demersal Fishery - Call for comment closes Friday 3 April 2009
February 2009
- National Assessment Guidelines for Dredging 2009
- Victorian Eel Fishery - Call for comment closed Wednesday 18 March 2009
- Marine species listed as conservation dependent - 3 February 2009
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