Rust never sleeps

[ellicat]

Rust never sleeps and it sems there's not enough pressure in the can of killrust to stop the spread.

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Conservation groups have welcomed the release of potential areas for marine protection in Australia's northern oceans.

The Federal Government is considering areas extending from the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory across to Cape York in Queensland.

There are different levels of protection, but it is possible that all kinds of industry could be banned from some areas.

The Marine Conservation Society's Prue Barnard says it is part of the Government's commitment to create a network of marine parks by 2012.

She says the move should not be a concern for fishermen.

"Often some fish, when they're bigger, they produce more eggs and larvae and actually go out of those areas and create more fish for surrounding regions," she said.

"There's many positive impacts."

She says the recent oil rig leak off the Kimberley coast underlines the need for sanctuaries.

"If the marine protected areas are well designed with high levels of marine sanctuaries, the marine environment will have its best chance of surviving such an impact," she said.

The words I've highlighted above are indicative of the nonsense that seems fair enough logic on the surface. However it is not the case for reef species. Reef species have a very low rate of emigration away from the reef they start at. To think and/or say that it will be beneficial to surrounding areas is completely misleading. As for larvae... ....and someone better tell Mother Nature not to let an oil slick drift into a marine park

[ellicat]

Here's a good idea. Might start buying milk from the States as a token support lol.

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[tugger]

who here thinks they'll put a marine park anywhere near where they drill for oil and gas with the royalties the goverment gets ,the power of the dollar will keep the oil feilds open in my view

mark

[ellicat]

I'm hopeful commonsense will prevail along with the mighty dollar. PEW was kicked off by Oil barrens afterall.