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Fishery

       * Victorian Commercial Permit and Small Sales Commercial Permit Fishery.

Moderate-use commercial shipping routes into and out of Melbourne extend over most
of the park.

  Figure S1.11 Apollo Marine Park

Nelson Marine Park
Proclaimed   28 June 2007 and came into effect on 1 September 2007.

Assigned zones in park National Park Zone (II) 6,123 km²

Depth range   2,557 m–5,612 m

Total area   6,123 km2

Overview and summary of values

Nelson Marine Park (Figure S1.12) lies 200 km off the coast of eastern South Australia. It protects primarily abyssal ecosystems and an area of lower slope dissected by canyon features in the northern section of the park.

Little is known about the benthic habitat and biodiversity in Nelson Marine Park, as no benthic surveys have been undertaken in this very remote and very deep park. Based on surveys undertaken in the Great Australian Bight and off south-eastern Australia, it appears that the composition of faunas associated with lower slope and abyssal ecosystems change over scales of 12,000 km. The faunas in the Great Australian Bight are compositionally distinct from those off both south-eastern and north-eastern Australia. Surveys will be required to determine if the faunas in Nelson Marine Park are compositionally similar to those in the Great Australian Bight or off south-eastern Australia, or whether they are compositionally distinct.

Many whales migrate through the park when travelling between the cold food-filled southern waters and the warmer waters north where they breed.

The park contains habitats, species and ecological communities associated with the West Tasmanian Transition provincial bioregion.

Figure S1.12 Nelson Marine Park
Murray Marine Park
Proclaimed   28 June 2007 and came into effect on 1 September 2007

Assigned zones in park National Park Zone (II) 17,168 km²

    Habitat Protection Zone (IV) 3,678 km²
    Multiple Use Zone (VI) 4,957 km²
Depth range   24 m–5,729 m

Total area   25,804 km2

Overview and summary of values

Murray Marine Park (Figure S1.13) is south of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. It extends from state coastal waters adjacent to South Australia's Encounter Marine Park to the outer boundary of Australian waters. It protects a wide range of ecosystems, including rariphotic (rare-light) reefs; shelf sediments; canyons; upper-, mid-, and lower-slope reefs and sediments; and abyssal plains.

Most of the shelf area of the park appears to be sediment. Towards the shelf break there are rariphotic reefs that are largely sand inundated but support a sessile invertebrate community dominated by soft corals.

The shelf is a core foraging area for post-fledgling Tasmanian endemic endangered shy albatross from Albatross Island, western Bass Strait. The northern section of the park is a breeding area for endangered southern right whales and a foraging area for male endangered Australian sea lions.

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