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There has been steady development in the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas since 2011, especially in the Commonwealth marine area
2016 Key Finding... steady development in the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas since 2011, especially in the Commonwealth marine area
In 2012, 40 Commonwealth m arine reserves were ...
Marine regions
2016 Report Content Six discrete marine regions have been identified under marine bioregional planning conducted ... IMCRA 4.0 ). The marine regions form the framework for the Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network (see also Effectiveness of marine ... environment, as well as relevant components within the area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park ( Figure MAR2 ). Here, we provide ...
Effectiveness of marine management 2016
2016 At a glance Effectiveness of marine management 2016
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The diversity of anthropogenic ... of Marine Protected Areas is developing steadily, with 40 Commonwealth marine reserves added to those already proclaimed in the ... cover approximately 40 per cent of the Commonwealth marine area, and approximately 5–50 per cent of the area of state and territory ...
Marine vessel activity
2016 Report Content... In addition, there were 670 cruise ship visits.
Marine vessel activity
Marine vessel activity
Great Barrier Reef ... strategy for mitigating vessel strike of marine mega-fauna, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra. DIRD (Australian Government Department of ...
Outlook for the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glance Outlook for the marine environment 2016
At a glance
The contribution of the marine ... of existing and emerging activities fall. This includes the Commonwealth marine reserves of the NRSMPA that were proclaimed in 2012. The ... assessment of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, which followed the decision by the World Heritage Committee to consider ...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content In the 5 years since SoE 2011, the marine environment has experienced several climate extremes, including one of ... Protected Areas ( NRSMPA ) since 2011, especially in the Commonwealth marine area . In November 2012, 40 Commonwealth marine reserves (CMRs) were ...
Effectiveness of marine management
2016, 2011 Assessment summary Effectiveness of marine management
Effectiveness of marine management
Triage responses to ... Knuckey I & Klaer NL (2013). Informing the review of the Commonwealth Policy on fisheries bycatch through assessing trends in bycatch of ... persons and entities with respect to activities in the area, advisory opinion
, Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International ...
Pressures affecting the marine environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summary Pressures affecting the marine environment
Pressures affecting the marine environment
Additional ... Knuckey I & Klaer NL (2013). Informing the review of the Commonwealth Policy on fisheries bycatch through assessing trends in bycatch of key Commonwealth fisheries, FRDC project 2012/046, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric ...
Key gaps in evaluating the marine environment
2016 Report Content... in our current ability to assess the state of the Australian marine environment. In this section, we summarise these key gaps and identify ... a comprehensive assessment of our estate, and to help manage Commonwealth and state marine reserves. The lack of data stems from 2 sources: ...
Overview of state and trends of the marine environment
2016 Report Content Australia’s marine environment encompasses the seabed; the water column; physical, ... be reconsidered ( Bejder et al. 2016 ). Since 2010, 34 new Commonwealth marine protected areas have been declared, resulting in a total ... cover approximately 40 per cent of the Commonwealth marine area, and between 5 and 50 per cent of the area of state and territory ...
Figure HER12 Change in marine protected areas, 2008–14
2016 Map Figure HER12 Change in marine protected areas, 2008–14
... Union for Conservation of Nature
IUCN protected area management categories
classify protected areas according to their ... Areas (as at 1 January 2016).
Figure HER12 Change in marine protected areas, 2008–14 Identification: Types of Heritage ...
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Species Groups
2016 Report Content... available were assessed for SoE 2016.
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Species Groups
State and trends of marine biodiversity: ... although gulper sharks (
Centrophorus
spp.) within the Commonwealth Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery are assessed as ...
Marine debris
2016 Report Content Within the marine environment, marine debris is sourced from both the land (rubbish flushed out to sea; see ... detail on coastal pollution in the Coasts report ) and marine industries (loss of equipment, often from fishing operations). Although ...
Terrestrial protected areas and Indigenous Protected Areas in 2011, and additions for 2016
2016 Map... Download dataset Sources: Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) 2008 to 2014; Indigenous Protected Areas database (as at 1 January 2016); © Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) Figure ...
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Quality of habitats and communities
2016 Report Content... distinct faunal compositions:
State and trends of marine biodiversity: Quality of habitats and communities
State and trends of ... of discovery in the western parts of the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve established baselines for midwater species ...
State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health
2016, 2011 Assessment summary State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health
State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem ... in the marine environment and focus the assessment on an area where the most information is available. The original 2011 summary, grade, ...
Review and update of harvest strategy settings for the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery. Single species and ecosystem considerations ...
Figure HER30 Full-time equivalent employees involved in natural heritage management in state, territory and Commonwealth national parks agencies, 2011–12 to 2015–16
2016 Graph... in natural heritage management in state, territory and Commonwealth national parks agencies, 2011–12 to 2015–16
Staffing ... Parks 279.2 278.2 315.3 305.7 317.8 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 211 222 214 193 208
Note: There are limitations in the ...
Management focus areas
2016 Report Content... Government’s ability to influence policy in this area has been limited. However, governments have now recognised that there are ... Unit, 2015,
State of Australian Cities 2014-15
, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra. Armstrong B, Davison G, de Vos Malan J, ...
Resilience of the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glance Resilience of the marine environment 2016
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Resilience can be considered to be ... Current understanding of the resilience of Australia’s marine environment is limited because of the vast spatial extent of ... long-term resilience within, and external to, the protected area or network. This will require sustained ecological monitoring for at least ...
The living environment: Marine and terrestrial
2016 Report Content... breeding close to each other.
The living environment: Marine and terrestrial
The living environment: Marine and terrestrial
... IPCC 2013 ). The Antarctic marine ecosystem, comprising the area south of the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone, is a productive area that many ...
Marine renewable energy generation
2016 Report Content The marine renewable energy industry is an emerging industry globally. Ocean energy ... of the environmental effects of these devices is a growing area of research, largely driven by technology developers and research agencies ... et al. 2011 ). Indeed, the infrastructure provided by marine renewable installations, if appropriately managed and designed, may have ...
Overview of resilience of the marine environment
2016 Report Content Current understanding of the resilience of Australia’s marine environment is limited because it is difficult to monitor the ... human-caused pressures originating outside the management area, making their prognosis poor ( GBRMPA 2014a , Hughes et al. 2015 ). ...
Coastal and marine species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content... and lagoons is covered in detail in the Coasts report . The Marine environment report provides a detailed assessment of the state and ... mudflats in the Yellow Sea that are used as a feeding area en route ( Iwamura et al. 2013 ; Murray et al. 2014 , 2015 ). ...
Pressures on the marine environment
2016 Report Content... the calcium they need from the ocean.
Pressures on the marine environment
Pressures on the marine environment
Antarctica The ... for statistical areas in the Southern Ocean. The convention area is divided into 3 statistical areas, and subareas and divisions, which ...
Approach - Marine environment 2016
2016 Report Content This report identifies the key pressures affecting the marine environment as a result of the social and economic drivers associated ... this framework for comparative reasons, recognising that the area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park lies outside the identified marine ...
Traditional use of marine resources
2016 Report Content Traditional use of marine resources is defined here as activities (fishing, collecting, hunting ... connection with Sea Country, leading to traditional use of marine resources across a large area of Australia.
Traditional use of marine resources
Traditional use of ...
Resilience of marine systems
2016 Report Content... et al. 2002 , Bernhardt & Leslie 2013 ):
Resilience of marine systems
Resilience of marine systems
Great Barrier Reef Marine ... anthropogenic pressures originating outside the management area, making their future prognosis poor ( GBRMPA 2014a , Hughes et al. 2015 ...
Executive Summary - Marine environment
2016 Executive Summary Executive Summary - Marine environment
Australia’s marine environment is the world’s third largest marine jurisdiction, at ... Observing System, the Long-term Temperate Marine Protected Area Monitoring Program and the Australian Institute of Marine Science ...
Marine mining and industry
2016 Report Content... a low level of understanding of pressures associated with marine mining and the frameworks required to effectively manage activities ... potential activities, in the Australian marine environment Area Resource Previous activities Current and potential activities
Nearshore ...
Residual risks to the marine environment
2016 At a glance Residual risks to the marine environment
At a glance
Avoidance and mitigation measures, which ... primary strategies for managing impacts of activities on the marine environment, may not address all impacts associated with the activities. ... of the residual risks associated with pressures on the marine environment identified that those associated with climate change and ...
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