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Box MAR5 National assessment of shallow reefs
2016 Case StudyThe Reef Life Survey, supported by the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme, is using standardised monitoring methodology to provide a national assessment of shallow rocky and coral reef biodiversity (in waters less than 25 metres deep) around...
Box MAR6 Southern bluefin tuna
2016 Case StudySouthern bluefin tuna is an important apex predator (at the top of the food chain) in Australia’s marine environment. Juveniles aggregate in the Great Australian Bight during the summer, and subadults and adults use southern and south-eastern waters primarily during winter....
Box MAR7 White shark
2016 Case StudyThe white shark (Carcharodon carcharias; also known as great white shark or white pointer) is a large, globally distributed apex predator, and one of the few shark species that have been definitively identified as responsible for human fatalities in Australia. It is a target...
Box MAR11 National Marine Science Plan
2016 Case StudyThe National Marine Science Plan is a decadal plan that is designed to focus investment on the biggest development and sustainability challenges facing Australia’s marine estate, and the highest priority science needed to tackle these challenges to fulfil the potential of the...
Box MAR9 Supporting the traditional management of dugongs and marine turtles in Torres Strait
2016 Case StudyThe Torres Strait region is renowned for its ecological complexity and biodiversity, providing a multitude of habitats and niches for the highly diverse Indo–Pacific marine flora and fauna, including dugongs and marine turtles. It consists of 247 islands, including 18 Torres...
Residual risks to the marine environment
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAvoidance and mitigation measures, which are the primary strategies for managing impacts of activities on the marine environment, may not address all impacts associated with the activities. Management may be absent or only partially effective, there may be some impacts that are...
Outlook for the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe contribution of the marine environment to the economy is projected to continue to grow 3 times faster than Australia’s gross domestic product in the next decade. It is in Australia’s interest that our ocean ecosystems continue to bring economic, cultural and social benefits...
Effectiveness of marine management 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe diversity of anthropogenic pressures on marine habitats and communities by different industries and sectors is a challenge for managers. Some pressures are increasing, others have declined following implementation of management frameworks, and new pressures and new sectors are...
State and trends of the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceReporting on the current state and recent trends of the biological and ecological components of Australia’s marine environment is highly variable across Australia’s marine estate, and is often inadequate for robust assessment. There are few coordinated, sustained monitoring...
Introduction 2016
2016 At a glanceAt 13.86 million square kilometres, Australia’s marine environment is the third largest marine jurisdiction in the world (Symonds et al. 2009). It is home to a diverse array of marine species, including marine mammals and reptiles; more than 4000 species of fish; and tens of thousands of...
Pressures affecting the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAustralia’s marine environment is experiencing pressures from a wide range of sources that affect its habitats, communities, species and ecosystem functioning to varying degrees. With many pressures affecting the marine environment and its inhabitants at any one time, it can be...
Resilience of the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceResilience can be considered to be the capacity of a system to keep functioning even when disturbed. Current understanding of the resilience of Australia’s marine environment is limited because of the vast spatial extent of Australia’s marine ecosystems, their complexity, the many...
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Species Groups
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
Marine vessel activity
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Great Barrier Reef International vessels International vessels operating in Australian waters mainly comprise large cargo carriers, but may also include...
Marine debris
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Within the marine environment, marine debris is sourced from both the land (rubbish flushed out to sea; see further detail on coastal pollution in the Coasts report) and marine...
Managing for resilience
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Resilience Great Barrier Reef Marine North Marine North West Marine South East Most management...
Sustainability and sector management
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Managing for externalities Climate variability and longer-term change Australia is a...
State and trends of indicators of marine ecosystem health: Ecologial processes
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine...
Marine regions
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
Climate change
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Tasmania Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast Marine South East...
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Quality of habitats and communities
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East...
Anthropogenic noise
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North Marine North...
Environment protection systems
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef...
Marine oil and gas exploration and production
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Marine Temperate East Marine South West Marine North Marine North West Marine South...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast...
Jurisdictions covered
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Indian Ocean Australia’s marine environment is part of the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Southern Ocean. It covers a diversity of seascapes and...
State and trends of indicators of marine ecosystem health: Physical, biogeochemical and biological processes
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment State and trends Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast Marine...
Overview of effectiveness of management of the marine environment
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Many improvements to management frameworks across Australian and state and territory governments introduced since 2011, including the implementation of new national...
Sustained ocean monitoring
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Outlook Great Barrier Reef Responding to a changing and increasingly modified environment, especially one where directing or modifying the trajectory of change is...
Dumped wastes
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Marine North West By volume, dredging contributes the largest pressure associated with dumped wastes (not including marine debris, toxins, pesticides and...
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