Please help to support Marine National Parks Marine National Parks have an integral role to play in the conservation and sustainable management of our bays and oceans. Now is the best opportunity to ensure protection. The Scuba South Pacific web project supports the protection of our marine environment. While Australia and other South Pacific nations have made significant progress in declaring Marine National Parks this vision has largely stopped at the shore.
Marine protection remains grossly inadequate.
Marine National Parks benefit all of us. Scientific research worldwide shows that fully protected marine areas allows the plant and animal communities within them to flourish and can support up to 25 times the marine life of adjacent fished areas. In Australia the Bureau of Resource Sciences claims that only 9 out of 100 fisheries are capable of sustaining increased fishing levels. Marine National Parks can act as insurance against the effects of this overexploitation. As coastal fisheries become barren, fishers turn to deeper waters.