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the Native Title Service Provider for the South-west region.
Heritage values
No international, Commonwealth or national heritage listings apply to the Marine Park at commencement of this plan.
Social and economic values
Tourism, commercial shipping, commercial fishing, recreation, including fishing, and defence training are important activities in the Marine Park. These activities contribute to the wellbeing of regional communities and the prosperity of the nation.

Figure S2.11 Perth Canyon Marine Park
Two Rocks Marine Park
The Two Rocks Marine Park (Figure S2.12) is located approximately 25 km north-west of Perth, to the north-west of the Western Australian Marmion Marine Park. The Marine Park covers an area of 882 km², extending from the Western Australian state water boundary, and a water depth range from 15 m to 120 m.
The Marine Park was proclaimed under the EPBC Act on 14 December 2013 and renamed Two Rocks Marine Park on 9 October 2017. The Marine Park is assigned IUCN category VI and includes two zones assigned under this plan: National Park Zone (II) and Multiple Use Zone (VI).
Coordinates for the Two Rocks Marine Park and zones are provided in Figure S2.12 and Schedule 4.
Statement of significance
The Two Rocks Marine Park is significant because it includes habitats, species and ecological communities associated with the South-west Shelf Transition. It includes three key ecological features: the Commonwealth marine environment within and adjacent to the west-coast inshore lagoons (valued for high productivity and aggregations of marine life, and high levels of biodiversity and endemism); western rock lobster (valued as a species that plays a regionally important ecological role); and ancient coastline between 90 m and 120 m depth (valued for relatively high productivity, aggregations of marine life and high levels of biodiversity and endemism).
The Marine Park is shallow and provides connectivity between offshore waters and the west coast inshore lagoons, which are key areas for the recruitment of rock lobster and other commercially and recreationally important fish species.
Natural values
The Marine Park includes examples of ecosystems representative of the South-west Shelf Transition—an area of narrow continental shelf that is noted for its physical complexity. The Leeuwin Current has a significant influence on the biodiversity of this nearshore area as it pushes subtropical water southward along the area's western edge. The area contains a diversity of tropical and temperate marine life including a large number of endemic fauna species. The inshore lagoons are thought to be important areas for benthic productivity and recruitment for a range of marine species.
Key ecological features of the Marine Park are:
  * Commonwealth marine environment within and adjacent to the west-coast inshore lagoons—an area that is regionally important for enhanced benthic productivity, including macroalgae and seagrass