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	Home / MTSRF Research / Theme 4 - Sustainable Use and Management / Program 8 - Sustainable Use (Great Barrier Reef) / Project 4.8.2 Project 4.8.2 - Influence of the GBR Zoning Plan on inshore habitats and biodiversity, of which fish and corals are indicators: reefs and shoals Project Leader: Dr Peter Doherty, Australian Institute of Marine Science Project 4.8.2 is part of a wider performance assessment of the new Great Barrier Reef Zoning Plan. Project 1.1.1 includes biannual assessments of the impacts on biodiversity of stopping fishing on regional clusters of coral reefs in the offshore (mid and outer-shelf) domain. This Project investigates the same basic questions for coastal habitats, where the major pressure is from recreational fishing. While the emphasis in both Projects is about the impact of the Zoning Plan upon biodiversity, especially the response of fish populations when released from fishing pressure, the wider study is also about the impacts of the new Zoning Plan upon fishers and the tourism industry. Social and economic dimensions of this problem will be studied through Projects 4.8.4 and 4.8.5 of this Program. Key objectives of this Project are to: Measure the response of biological communities (fish and benthos) to differential zoning of human use on inshore coral reefs; and Measure the response of biological communities (fish and benthos) to differential zoning of human use on inshore shoals. Download Larger Image Above: Small mouth (Lutjanus erythropterus) and large mouth (L. malabaricus) nannygai and red emperor (L. sebae) at a RAP shoals study site off Great Palm Island, north of Townsville, Queensland (Photograph: P. Speare, Australian Institute of Marine Science). Download Larger Image Above: Queensland groper (Epinephalus lanceolatus) with juvenile golden trevally (Gnathadon speciosus) and a baitfish (Selaroides leptolepis) close to a wreck off Magnetic Island, North Queensland (Photograph: P. Speare, Australian Institute of Marine Science). Project 4.8.2 Video Footage Fish assemblage from BRUVS deployment in a predominant filter feeding habitat on Magnetic Shoal - 2.3 Mb	Research Into the Effectiveness of Reef Zoning Managing the Great Barrier Reef Project 4.8.2 Downloads A comparative study between fished and protected inter-reefal shoal habitats and their fish communities on the Great Barrier Reef: Report on ongoing monitoring off Townsville and initial surveys near Cardwell and Cairns, North Queensland This PDF document is designed to be printed double-sided. [pdf 12.7 Mb] Project 4.8.2 AIMS Speare, P. (2007) Preliminary findings from the first baseline survey of the Magnetic Shoals Project progress report by P. Speare and M. Stowar, Australian Institute of Marine Science, on results of a baseline survey of 'green' zoned sites on Magnetic Shoal, together with non-green sites in the adjacent 'blue' zoned areas of the marine park initialised in July 2006. Ongoing monitoring was maintained in order to assess any seasonal effects on the fish and benthic communities. Output from Project 4.8.2 Influence of the Great Barrier Reef Zoning Plan on inshore habitats and biodiversity, of which fish and corals are indicators: Reefs and shoals. [pdf 1.1 Mb]

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