This week two of the nation’s leading fish scientists, Professor David Booth and Dr Will Figueira, representing the Australian Marine Sciences Association, gave evidence to the NSW Parliament on marine parks…here is an edited extract of their submission. Despite the claims by many critics of marine parks, there is at this point, overwhelming evidence that [...]
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MASSIVE NEW MARINE PARK FOR SYDNEY?
December 4th, 2008 · 30 Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD A plan for a massive marine park stretching off Sydney’s coast, from Gosford in the north to the Royal in the south and three kilometres out to sea, will be launched today. The proposal by the National Parks Association of NSW(NPA) is ambitious, but, if successful, will lead to an overhaul [...]
PROFESSOR DAVID BOOTH TAKES ON MARINE PARK BULLY BOYS
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · News
David Booth Professor of Marine Ecology, UTS Chief Scientist, Sydney Institute of Marine Science You’d think from the rhetoric floating around debate on the validity of NSW marine parks of late that scientists were equivocal about their benefits. Some scientists have claimed that park establishment is politically driven, and there is no science behind them, [...]
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