Conservation
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Marine Aquaria Hobby
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is undisputed as one of the world’s most important natural assets. It is the largest natural feature on earth stretching more than 2,300km along the northeast coast of Australia from the northern tip of Queensland to just north of Bundaberg.
Resources
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) is the principal adviser to the Commonwealth Government on the care and development of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
- Science for management of the Great Barrier Reef - The Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland coast of Australia is managed with a goal of maintaining and enhancing those qualities which made it the world's first (1981) and largest (348,700 km2) marine World Heritage Area while keeping it accessible for multiple uses, notably tourism, fishing and shipping.
- Surveys of Trochus, Holothuria, Giant Clams and the Coral Communities at Ashmore Reef, Cartier Reef and Mermaid Reef, Northwestern Australia 2003
- CRC Reef Research Centre Technical Report No. 40 - The sustainability of Queensland's coral harvest fishery.
- Coral Diseases on the Great Barrier Reef Patterns of distribution and changes in abundance of Hard Coral Disease by Ian Miller - Australia Institute of Marine Science
Pacific Fisheries
Resources
- Blast and Cyanide Fishing by Dean Boulding and Mike Kirda - reefs.org
Australian Fisheries
- Australian Fisheries Statistics 2005 - This report contains data on the volume AND value of production from state & Commonwealth fisheries, the volume and value of Australian fisheries trade, by destination, source and product, for the 3 years to 2004-05. Also contains a profile of Commonwealth and state fisheries and state aquaculture for 2004-05, covering selected species, fishing method and number of licence holders.
- Trade of syngnathids and solenostomids (Seahorses, Sea dragons, Pipehorses and Pipefish) - Sustainable Fisheries Section, September 2003
Western Australia
- Environmental assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 20 September 2004
- Environmental assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 1 July 2005
Queensland
- Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Queensland Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2005
- Environmental assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Assessment of the Queensland Coral Fishery, Department of the Environment and Heritage, June 2006
Northern Territory
- Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Northern Territory Aquarium Fishery, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 24 May 2005
Livestock Importation
Due to Australia's quarantine laws, it is not possible to import any invertebrates into the country. This covers corals, shrimp, clams, liverock etc. Fish importantion is allowed.
- Import Risk Analysis on Live Ornamental Finfish - assessment document by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (July 1999). This import risk analysis on live ornamental finfish was conducted in response to findings of the World Trade Organization, in 1997, of inconsistency in the quarantine measures applied by Australia to live and non-viable finfish. As an outcome of this IRA, Australia introduced new policies on the importation of live ornamental finfish. These policies were announced on 19 July 1999.
Monitoring
- Reef Watch Victoria - not-for-profit project that encourages you as divers and snorkellers to check on marine life at your favourite dive sites. Through Reef Watch, you will be able to encourage better policies and actions to protect Victoria's marine Environment.
- Reef Watch South Australia - not-for-profit project that encourages you as divers and snorkellers to check on marine life at your favourite dive sites. Through Reef Watch, you will be able to encourage better policies and actions to protect South Australia's marine Environment.
Marine Protected Areas
- First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (2005)
- Blue Print for the South Australian Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
Resources
- Guide to the list of CITES Species - Department of Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government
- Marine Conservation - MarineBio.org
- Reef Environmental Education Foundation
- Coral Reef Studies - ARC CEntre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, which is researching; Evolutionary and environmental change, Understanding and managing coral reef biodiversity, Marine reserves and reef connectivity, Genetic, molecular and physiological processes, and Resilience of linked social-ecological systems.
- Fishers For Conservation - an Australian based non-profit incorporated association educating, supporting and representing recreational and other fishers/ aquatic conservationists.
- Coral Bleaching - AIMS index for documents dealing with coral bleaching.
- Status of Coral Reefs in Tsunami Affected Countries: 2005 - our focus in this book is on the impacts on the natural coastal resources, especially the coral reefs and associated ecosystems, and the responses by the international community.
- Status of coral reefs of the world: 2004
- Status of coral reefs of the world: 2002
- Status of coral reefs of the world: 2000
- Status of coral reefs of the world: 1998
- Global Maps of the Growth of Japanese Marine Fisheries and Fish Consumption - W.K. Swartz, Masters Thesis, The University of British Columbia, 2004.
- Fisheries Impacts on Marine Ecosystems and Biological Diversity: The Role for Marine Protected Areas in British Columbia - S.S. Wallace, PhD Thesis, The University of British Columbia, 1999.
