Under this CAR model of marine parks its critical to first identify and prioritise all the threats to the areas, and only once this is completed can you draft the management plans for the marine parks. Failure to do this seriously compromises the effectiveness of the marine park and wrongly removes user groups from the area causing potential economic hardship and unnecessary emotional stress, while allowing other threats to continue.

Any marine park management plan that only focuses on one perceived threat while totally ignoring all the other threats is clearly not driven by groups that have the best interest of our marine environment in mind, but simply an anti-fishing campaign! banning fishing in our well managed fisheries has very little to no benefit, there is nothing that we cannot do better and more efficiently with our current fisheries management, than using marine parks that are a very blunt tool, that do little more than banning anglers form these areas, simple MARINE PARKS ARE NOT A FISHERIES MANAGEMENT TOOL!

It’s time to stop being the soft target, for extreme well organised well-funded minority groups that have been bulling anglers for many years.

PEW along with some SA diving groups have been mounting a campaign to oppose these marine zone changes, yet shark feeding activities that have been shown not only to affect the behaviour of the sharks but also resulted in modifying the biodiversity of the area, is allowed to continue where fishing has been banned,

Both Mr Geoff Brock and Mr Martin Hamilton-Smith will hold the critical votes with their balance of power, when this bill is voted on the 16th September, they need to hear the united voice of anglers, because currently we are being drowned out by a very small minority who have been given a very load voice.

Anglers of Australia lets stand united!

This bill that will  allow fishing to continue in 12 of the SA marine parks will be voted on, in the SA parliament on the 16th of September, please sing and share this will all your friends!

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