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for future generations. Booderee National Park, including its waters, is classified as IUCN category II (see Section 3.1, Assigning the Park to an IUCN Category and Zoning) to protect natural biodiversity along with underlying ecological structure and supporting environmental processes.

The park will expand its research and monitoring programs to evaluate the effectiveness of current management arrangements for conserving marine biodiversity. The research programs will aim to collect information about species, habitat and community biodiversity, while also identifying species of significance. Findings will inform management decisions relating to fishing practices in the park (see Section 7.8, Recreational fishing and collecting activities).

Issues
    * Off-park activities may affect marine water quality.

    * Recreational fishing and collecting may be negatively impacting on marine values.

Prescriptions

Policies

    6.5.1        Use of the marine environment will be managed to protect, conserve and appreciate habitat and species.

    6.5.2        Appropriate research and ecosystem monitoring will continue to be undertaken and/or permitted in order to develop a more comprehensive body of information on the park's marine biodiversity.

    6.5.3        Activities in the park will be undertaken in a manner that minimises sedimentary runoff and pollution of the marine environment.

Actions

    6.5.4        Maintain liaison with relevant land managers and cooperate with the Jervis Bay Territory Administration, Defence, the Council and other Territory landholders to minimise the impact of pollution or runoff from developed areas on the marine environment.

    6.5.5        Undertake and support relevant research into the marine environment including taxonomic research in relation to undescribed species and research into ecological processes.

    6.5.6        Impose further restrictions on access or activities if a negative impact on marine values is observed, or areas of high habitat value or regional significance are identified as requiring additional protection. See also Sections 3.1.9 and 7.8.3.

    6.5.7        Investigate mapping the benthic marine habitats of park waters to provide a resource comparable to vegetation mapping already available for the park's terrestrial component.

    6.5.8        Conduct education programs about marine environment values and the protection regime that applies.

    6.5.9        Negotiate arrangements with the NSW Jervis Bay Marine Park for collaborative management of Jervis Bay.

    6.5.10    Give high priority to the cooperative development, with other regional management agencies, of a marine monitoring program, collaborative research and a geographic information system to assist in conservation management of Jervis Bay.

    6.6           Freshwater

Aim
    * The freshwater ecosystems within the park are protected and maintained.

Background
The park's freshwater systems range from ephemeral sheet and stream surface flows to permanent and semi-permanent streams, swamps and waterholes. Lake Windermere and Lake McKenzie are closed freshwater dune lakes and the largest permanent water bodies in Booderee. Both are characterised by considerable cyclical water-level fluctuations in response to climatic variations over a period of several years.

Alteration