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Recreational fishers urged to use free marine parks zoning app
Reef authorities are calling on recreational fishers to download a free marine parks zoning app before visiting the Great Barrier Reef this year.
The free Eye on the Reef app contains a mapping feature that works outside of mobile range to pinpoint the user’s location to show what zone they’re in and what fishing activities are allowed there.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority acting General Manager Richard Quincey said the free app, chart plotters, and free zoning maps could all be used to help visitors know the rules out on the water.
We are seeing great catches, trophy fish every day. Recreational fishers are coming back with full Eskies. If the sharks were not out there in the numbers they are the fish would not be out there in the numbers they are. It s an indication of a healthy fishery. Â Â However a veteran with a lifetime s experience on the Great Barrier Reef believes changed regulations restricting commercial fishers takes are to blame for shark numbers being out of control in waters off Cairns. Eighty one-year-old Mission Beach local Dave Nossen was the first chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority advisory board.
We are seeing great catches, trophy fish every day. Recreational fishers are coming back with full Eskies. If the sharks were not out there in the numbers they are the fish would not be out there in the numbers they are. It s an indication of a healthy fishery. Â Â However a veteran with a lifetime s experience on the Great Barrier Reef believes changed regulations restricting commercial fishers takes are to blame for shark numbers being out of control in waters off Cairns. Eighty one-year-old Mission Beach local Dave Nossen was the first chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority advisory board.
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Subscriber only New data shows Mackay Whitsunday region rivers have the worst herbicide pollution throughout northern and central Queensland. The results come from samples taken from 11 sites covering the Wet Tropics at Cairns down to the Fitzroy region near Yeppoon, which tested for 26 herbicides and pesticides commonly used in agriculture. Repulse Bay, between Conway Beach and Midge Point, ranked in the highest percentiles for nine types of herbicides while Flat Top Island, not far off East Mackay, was in the highest percentiles for seven varieties - both topping the list for diuron. In line with previous monitoring years, diuron, atrazine and hexazinone were the most frequently detected and abundant of the pesticides at most sites, reflecting their high usage in sugar cane cultivation, which is located along much of the Great Barrier Reef coastline, the report by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority stated.
Australia to fund ecological arks to save Great Barrier Reef
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Mon, Dec 21 2020 10:12 IST |
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The Great Barrier Reef.. Image Source: IANS News
Canberra, Dec 21 : The Australian government has announced a plan to save islands in the Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Queensland state, from the effects of climate change.
According to the report from News Corp Australia on Sunday, the government will spend A$5.5 million ($4.2 million) building ecological arks across the iconic coral reef, reports Xinhua news agency.
Sussan Ley, the Minister for the Environment, said that the survival of the reef was at a critical juncture.