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Commonwealth of Australia
Instrument under section 270B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to make a Threat Abatement Plan
I, MELISSA PRICE, Assistant Minister for the Environment, under section 270B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, have decided to make the Threat Abatement Plan for the impacts of marine debris on the vertebrate wildlife of Australia's coasts and oceans, for the purpose of reducing the effect of the key threatening process as specified below:

Key Threatening Process                                                                                          Threat Abatement Plan
Injury and fatality to vertebrate marine life caused by ingestion of, or entanglement in, harmful marine debris  Department of the Environment and Energy (2018). Threat Abatement Plan for the impacts of marine debris on the vertebrate wildlife of Australia's coasts and oceans

The Threat Abatement Plan for the impacts of marine debris on the vertebrate wildlife of Australia's coasts and oceans will come into force on the day after the plan is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Dated this ………26………. day of ………June………. 2018

MELISSA PRICE……………………………………………………..

Assistant Minister for the Environment

         Threat Abatement Plan

         for the impacts of marine debris on the vertebrate
         wildlife of Australia's coasts and oceans (2018)

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          Front Cover photo: A pelican killed by marine debris at Cardwell, Queensland. Image: P. Campbell, Tangaroa Blue Foundation

          Back Cover photo: Removing net from an entangled Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus). Image: Phillip Island Nature Parks

           Contents

               1.                 Background                                                          4
               2.                 Objectives and actions                                  8

               Objective 1: Contribute to long-term prevention of marine debris                     8

               Objective 2: Understand the scale of impacts from marine plastic and microplastic on key   species, ecological communities and locations              20

               Objective 3: Remove existing marine debris                                   26

               Objective 4: Monitor the