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communities on seamounts shallower than 1,350 m and by urchins in deeper waters. The deep-sea coral communities, globally recognised for their diversity, include stony reef building corals and octocorals, which provide habitat for a variety of other species. Some of the deep-sea coral communities were damaged by deep-sea bottom trawling for orange roughy in the 1990s.

Patience seamount provides spawning grounds for basketwork eels  the only reported spawning aggregation of oceanic eels globally. Basketwork eels are scavengers and important species for nutrient cycling and ecosystem function.

The park includes biologically important foraging areas for many seabirds, including 7 species of albatross (including the antipodean, black browed, Bullers, Campbell, Indian yellow nosed, shy and wandering albatrosses), sooty and short-tailed shearwaters, soft plumaged petrels, common diving petrel and Australasian gannet. There are also biologically important areas in the park for white shark, southern right whale and pygmy blue whale.

The park contains habitats, species, and ecological communities associated with 2 provincial bioregions – Tasmanian Shelf Province and Tasmania Province and the Bruny and Davey mesoscale bioregions.

The key ecological features represented in the park include:

       * shelf rocky reefs and hard substrate – includes the rariphotic reefs in the north of the park

       * seamounts, east and south of Tasmania

       * east Tasmania subtropical convergence zone.

The Tasmanian Seamounts Commonwealth Heritage Area lies within the Huon Marine Park. The seamounts were listed because they support a deep-sea benthic community characterised by high biodiversity and endemism, and long-lived, slow-growing species vulnerable to disturbance.
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)

       * Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (Commonwealth managed)

       * Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery (Commonwealth managed)

       * Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery

       * Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery

       * Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery.

The recreational fishing hotspot for southern bluefin tuna near Pedra Branca may extend into the park.

Figure S1.5 Huon Marine Park
South Tasman Rise Marine Park
Proclaimed   28 June 2007 and came into effect on 1 September 2007

Assigned zones in park National Park Zone (II) 27,704 km²

Depth range   804 m–5,022 m

Total area   27,704 km²

Overview and summary of values

The remote South Tasman Rise Marine Park (Figure S1.6) is about 240 km south-east of Tasmania and extends to the outer limit of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone about 370 km from land. The South Tasman Rise Marine Park protects mid-slope, lower-slope, abyssal and seamount ecosystems.

The western section of the park includes a large, submerged plateau of continental rock believed to be the last remnant of the link between Australia and Antarctica, when the