Caring for The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park & World Heritage Area Dr Laurence McCook, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Pew Fellow in Marine.

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Caring for The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park & World Heritage Area Dr Laurence McCook, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation. Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation

Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation Introduction GBR place of extraordinary environmental, social & economic value. Beauty.

Adaptive Management & assessing effectiveness Conceptualize Plan actions & Monitoring Implement Actions & Monitoring Analyze & Review effectiveness Adapt & Revise Actions & Monitoring Review of zoning Outlook Report Strategic Assessment

Great Barrier Reef Zoning (a global standard for marine conservation) Key management tool (But only 1 part of integrated portfolio of strategies) In different zones, activities are:  allowed ‘as of right’  require a permit  Prohibited Best practice design & implementation; Rigorous & accountable principles of conservation science Large area

5 years on: review & synthesis of outcomes 21 leading scientists from Great Barrier Reef; Fish Sharks Corals & Starfish Non-reef habitats Seabed habitats Dugong Turtles Compliance Social surveys Economics

Outcomes: More, bigger fish in protected areas… Clear, widespread evidence for long-term benefits; Requires good compliance & enforcement; Possible widespread depletion, by 1984 (inshore)

Ecosystem-wide benefits for fish: the network… Benefits to other reserves; Most larvae on reserve & fished reefs from protected reserve reefs; Good for fisheries & entire ecosystem…

Indirect effects: Crown-of-thorns starfish reduced, & coral increased… Fewer outbreaks of starfish; More coral during outbreak times

Social information : Failure of collapse in recreational fishery 2004 Zoning Plan Recreational vessel registrations:

$ Billions Revenue Tourism Commercial Fishing Recreational Use Revenue Cost Revenue 2004 Zoning Plan Economics of reef management (assumptions vs evidence) Income: Reef contributes $5.5 billion/yr & ~53,800 full time jobs; increasing Costs: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: < 0.7 % of revenue… Enforcement <0.3% Structural Adjustment - $211 million: <4% of 1 yr revenue…

Outlook: Risks & challenges A stock take of where we have come from, where we are at & where we are going A synthesis of science & other relevant information to the Great Barrier Reef Assesses management effectiveness

Adapted from Hockings et al. 2006, IUCN WCPA All management, not just by GBRMPA Independent assessment (by 2 internationally recognised experts) High level review of 12 key management topics Input from Queensland & Australian Government agencies Existing protection & management

biodiversity protection heritage water quality climate change coastal development commercial marine tourism defence fishing (commercial & recreational) ports & shipping recreation (not including fishing) scientific research traditional (indigenous) use of marine resources Management topics

"The outlook for the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem is at a crossroad, and it is decisions made in the next few years that are likely to determine its long-term future" Overall Outlook 2009

Emerging issues – Outlook 2009  Outlook 2014 Declines: corals; seagrasses; dugongs; turtles; Accumulation of impacts: Need for coordinated, integrated management across issues, time, space... (carrying capacity / upper limits) Unprecedented growth in coastal development – ports, shipping, urban & mining/industrial Pressures on inshore biodiversity World Heritage Committee Concerns re: approval of port facilities within GBR World Heritage Area Heritage Step up in management of impacts for long-term, large scale...

GBR Strategic Assessment Provide overarching assessment of effectiveness of management arrangements to protect Great Barrier Reef values GBRMPA (marine) & State (Queensland) components to examine cumulative impacts on values – multiple pressures from multiple activities – rather than project by project assessments Ensure that management tools used are most effectively tackling the range of pressures on values Strongly linked to 5 year Outlook Report cycle.

Summary: Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef 5 yearly Outlook Report; Strategic Assessment of management effectiveness; Reef has declined; Need a step-up in management to maintain values. Reserve network: Significant ecosystem benefits; Probable benefits to tourism & fisheries … Highly Cost-effective… 1 part of package of complementary management 