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resources, and available funding is aimed at assisting conservation planning and managing threats. Key mechanisms and indicative costings to achieve priority actions as outlined in this Recovery Plan are provided in Table 6.

Table 6 Key mechanisms and indicative costing to carry out some of the priority actions for southern right whales.
Actions                              Mechanisms to achieve actions                                                                                                                 SW population indicative costings     SE population indicative costings
A: Assessing and addressing threats
A1                                      * Continue or improve existing national and state legislative and management actions to minimise anthropogenic threats.                    Core government business              Core government business
A2                                      * Manage anthropogenic activities to minimise impact from threats.                                                                         Core government business              Core government business
A3                                      * Australian Government climate change adaptation initiatives.                                                                             Core government business              Core government business
                                        * Government grants programs.
A4                                      * State government programs to disentangle whales.                                                                                         Core government business              Core government business
                                        * State government / industry partnerships to implement gear modifications to reduce entanglement risk.                                    DPIRD: $750,000 for a 3-year study
                                        * State government / industry Codes of Practice to reduce the risk of whale entanglements in fishing gear.
                                        * Australian Government Threat Abatement Plan for the Impacts of Marine Debris on Vertebrate Marine Life.
A5                                      * Development of National Anthropogenic Underwater Noise Guidelines for the management of anthropogenic noise for marine mammals.          Core government business              Core government business
                                        * Update EPBC Act Policy Statement 2.1 – Interaction between offshore seismic exploration and whales 2008.
                                        * Guidance to proponents about their legal responsibilities under the EPBC Act to minimise impacts from anthropogenic noise to cetaceans.
                                        * Research to assess impacts of anthropogenic noise through behavioural responses, such as behavioural disturbance.

                                                                                                                                                                                   $200,000 p.a. for 3-to-4-year study   $200,000 p.a. for 3-to-4-year study
A6                                      * Update National Strategy for Reducing Vessel Strike on Cetaceans and other Marine Megafauna 2017.                                        Core government business              Core government business
                                        * Research to assess behavioural responses of southern right whales to vessel interactions in BIA's.
                                                                                                                                                                                   $100,000 p.a. for 2-to-3-year study   $100,000 p.a. for 2-to-3-year study

B: Enabling and measuring recovery
B1                                     * Ongoing Commonwealth and state government monitoring programs                                                                                                       $200,000 p.a. for monitoring        $100,000 p.a. for monitoring
                                       * Ongoing research activity
                                       * Government grant programs                                                                                                                                           Core government business            Core government business
B2                                     * Ongoing Commonwealth and state government monitoring programs                                                                                                       $100,000 p.a. for 2 - 3-year study  $100,000 p.a. for 2 - 3-year study
                                       * Government grant programs                                                                                                                                           Core government business            Core government business
B3                                     * Ongoing Commonwealth and state government monitoring programs                                                                                                       $100,000 p.a. for 3-year study      $100,000 p.a. for 3-year study
                                       * National government and international organisations grant programs                                                                                                  Core government business            Core government business
B4                                     * Ongoing Commonwealth government Indigenous Protected Areas Program                                                                                                  Core government business            Core government business
                                       * Oral history project with Traditional