Blue is the New Green: Support Marine Parks

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Some useful definitions………

Marine Protected Areas
A marine protected area is either a marine park, aquatic reserve or marine extension of a national park or nature reserve.

Marine Sanctuaries
Fully protected waters which allow for diving, snorkelling, swimming and boating but where fishing is prohibited to allow marine life to recover. Marine sanctuaries can form all or part of marine protected areas depending on the zoning allocated to that marine protected area.

Marine Parks
A type of marine protected area which is multiple use allowing all activities aside from mining. In NSW there are 4 zonings within marine parks. Sanctuary zones are the fully protected waters, whilst other zones allow for fishing activities.

Aquatic Reserves
These tend to be smaller marine protected areas with just one zoning type. They can be protected as sanctuary or open to various forms of fishing.

Marine Extension of National Parks and Nature Reserves
A seaward extension of land national parks. These tend to offer little protection since the legislation doesn't enable the protection of the fish in these areas. Other marine protected areas are therefore more useful for conservation.

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