Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00100:front:0:p79
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00100
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 246135–249058

The southern end of the park contains low-profile rariphotic reefs in depths of about 80 m to 90 m. These are likely limestone pavement and are often sand inundated except at step features which support a diverse sponge community.
The park is a core foraging area for early incubating Tasmanian endemic endangered shy albatross from the nearby Albatross Island breeding colony. It also includes biologically important foraging areas for 6 other species of albatross (including the vulnerable antipodean, black browed, Campbell, Indian yellow nosed and wandering albatrosses, and Bullers albatross), white faced storm petrel, common diving petrel, little penguin, Australasian gannet, and short-tailed shearwater. Biologically important areas for white shark, southern right whale and pygmy blue whale also occur in the park.

The park contains habitats, species, and ecological communities associated with 2 provincial bioregions  Tasmanian Shelf Province and Western Bass Shelf Province – and the Otway and Franklin mesoscale bioregions.

The key ecological features represented in the park include:

       * shelf rocky reefs and hard substrate – includes the mesophotic and rariphotic reefs in the north, east and south sections of the park.

Social and economic benefits

At the time of making this plan, the main commercial fisheries operating in the park include:

       * South-east Scalefish and Shark Fishery  gillnet, hook and trap sector (Commonwealth managed)

       * Tasmanian Octopus Fishery

       * Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery

       * Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery

       * Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery.

 Figure S1.9 Franklin Marine Park
Boags Marine Park
Proclaimed   28 June 2007 and came into effect on 1 September 2007

Assigned zones in park Multiple Use Zone (VI) 537 km²

Depth range   10 m–62 m

Total area   537 km²

Overview and summary of values

Boags Marine Park (Figure S1.10) is off the north-west tip of Tasmania, north of Three Hummock Island. The marine park represents an area of shallow ecosystems contained
within western Bass Strait. The park is dominated by extensive, mobile dune fields caused by the combination of shallow depths and strong tidal currents. Some of the dunes are over
10 m high.

The mobile dunes are unlikely to support complex sessile invertebrate communities and are more likely dominated by crustaceans, polychaete worms and molluscs that live on and in sediments. The area is known to support relatively large populations of pale octopus.

The seafloor of the park was part of the Ancient Land Bridge  a landscape that once connected Lutruwita/Tasmania to the mainland and was used by First Nations people before
it was submerged at the end of the last glacial period about 10,000 years ago. First Nations communities hold knowledge, oral traditions, stories and songlines that connect to the times of the land bridge that have been passed down