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of making this plan the consultation Tayaritja Milaythina Muka Indigenous Protected Area (IPA)  overlaps Flinders Marine Park. This is the first Sea Country IPA consultation project in the South-east Network. It extends from north-east Lutruwita/Tasmania over the submerged land bridge and surrounds Tayaritja/Bass Strait Islands. The aim of the Tayaritja Milaythina Muka IPA consultation project is to protect culturally and ecologically important habitats and species.
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 Giant Crab Fishery

       * Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery

       * Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery.

Figure S1.3 Flinders Marine Park
Freycinet Marine Park
Proclaimed   28 June 2007 and came into effect on 1 September 2007

Assigned zones in park National Park Zone (II) 56,825 km²

    Recreational Use Zone (IV) 323 km²
    Habitat Protection Zone (IV) 68 km²

    Multiple Use Zone (VI) 725 km²

Depth range   40 m–5,230 m

Total area   57,941 km2

Overview and summary of values

Freycinet Marine Park (Figure S1.4) is located east of Tasmania, 6 km–12 km offshore from the Freycinet Peninsula. It extends from the mid-continental shelf eastwards to the outer limit of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone. The park protects a range of ecosystems, including mesophotic (middle-light) reefs; rariphotic (rare-light) reefs; shelf sediments; upper-, mid-, and lower-slope reefs and sediments; and seamounts.

Several different hard substrate features, primarily rariphotic (rare light) reef ecosystems, are present on the shelf. A highlight of the park is Joe's Reef  an isolated granite reef that rises about 20 m above the surrounding seabed near the western boundary of the park. This structurally complex reef is about 200 m by 200 m and occurs in depths of 59 m to 83 m, so the top of the reef extends into the mesophotic (middle light) rocky reef ecosystem. It is covered in a diverse invertebrate fauna of sponges, gorgonian fans, mushroom corals and rare but distinctive tree-forming black corals up to 3 m tall. Fish assemblages associated with Joe's Reef are dominated by reef-associated species such as jackass morwong, ocean perch, butterfly perch, splendid perch, rosy wrasse and striped trumpeter.

In the north-west corner of the park there are lower profile, fragmented, isolated patch reefs in depths of about 80 m. Fish assemblages associated with these patch reefs are dominated by jackass morwong, barred grubfish, ocean perch and common gurnard perch.

There are several small, distinct areas of reef on the shelf-break, likely scoured of sand cover by currents associated with adjacent canyons. They are steep mudstone ledge/cliffs without significant reef complexity. Fish assemblages associated with these features include