A few weeks back I saw a local newspaper story that featured my local member of state parliament down on the NSW south coast, in a boat off Batemans Bay.
He and a couple of local fishermen were grizzling about how hard it was to go fishing now there is a marine park in the area. […]

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By JAMES WOODFORD
A plan for a massive marine park stretching off Sydney’s coast, from Gosford in the north to the Royal in the south and three kilometres out to sea, will be launched today.
The proposal by the National Parks Association of NSW(NPA) is ambitious, but, if successful, will lead to an overhaul of the management […]

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David Booth
Professor of Marine Ecology, UTS
Chief Scientist, Sydney Institute of Marine Science
You’d think from the rhetoric floating around debate on the validity of NSW marine parks of late that scientists were equivocal about their benefits. Some scientists have claimed that park establishment is politically driven, and there is no science behind them, and this view […]

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