ScienceAustralia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile coastal zones, scientists say

More than 270 marine scientists from 84 research institutes have urged Environment Minister Murray Watt to strengthen protections during Australia’s once-a-decade marine parks review. They say highly protected areas are concentrated in remote waters, leaving waters around the mainland exposed, and call for at least 30% of every marine bioregion to be protected, with industrial trawling, long-lining and mining banned in marine parks.

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