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to meet these diverse needs, while also supporting the Director's overall annual corporate planning and performance reporting requirements.
In the final stages of this management plan, a comprehensive review will be undertaken
to evaluate the effectiveness of this plan and inform the third management plan for the
South-east Network.

  4.         Zoning and activity prescriptions

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4.1           Zone categories, names and objectives
Zoning and related prescriptions for managing activities are important tools to ensure protection of marine park values, while enabling different types of use. In determining the zones and rules, the Director has considered the best available science, the advice of stakeholders and First Nations groups (including through formal statutory consultations), the goals and principles of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas, and the Australian IUCN reserve management principles.
Effective marine park management requires the implementation of management programs
and actions (described in Chapter 3) to fully give effect to the zoning and rules described in
this chapter.
The EPBC Act requires this plan to assign an IUCN category to each marine park. The EPBC Act also allows this plan to further divide a marine park into zones and to assign a category to each zone, which may differ from the overall category of the marine park.
This section (4.1) assigns an IUCN category to each marine park of the South-east Network, divides some marine parks into zones with their own category and sets out the objectives for each zone (Table 4.1). Zoning takes into account the purposes for which the marine parks were declared, the objectives of this plan (Section 1.6), the values of the network (Section 2.3 and Schedule 1), and the requirements of the EPBC Act and Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 (EPBC Regulations). Figure 4.1 and the maps in Schedule 1 show the zones assigned to the South-east Network, Schedule 3 describes the park boundaries and zones assigned, and the management approach applied to activities within these zones is provided in Section 4.3 (Prescriptions for activities). An overview of the South-east Network marine parks and zones is provided in Schedule 1, Table S1.1.

Prescriptions
 1.          Each marine park in the South-east Network specified in Table 4.1 is assigned to the IUCN category specified in column 2 of Table 4.1.

        2.                      Apollo, Boags, East Gippsland, Nelson and South Tasman Rise Marine Parks are given the zone name specified in column 3 of Table 4.1, adjacent to the name of the marine park (column 1).

        3.                      Beagle, Flinders, Franklin, Freycinet, Huon, Macquarie Island, Murray, Tasman Fracture and Zeehan Marine Parks are each divided into the zones shown in Figure 4.1 and more specifically