The three new marine parks will cover more than 600,000 hectares of Kimberley coastline throughout the Buccaneer Archipelago.
The WA government has announced three new marine parks, covering thousands of kilometres of Kimberley coastline in Western Australia's far north.The parks have been jointly designed by the area's traditional ownersFormally unveiled this morning, the Bardi Jawi Garra, Mayala and Maiyalam Marine Parks cover more than 600,000 hectares of the Buccaneer Archipelago.
Dambimangari Corporation director Leah Umbagi said the park was an important recognition of her people's connection with the sea."By doing this in collaboration with the other groups … I think coming forward as a group as the saltwater people it's a big [step] forward," she said. Draft plans to ban and restrict recreational fishing from nearly 40 per cent of the park were met with a tense reaction from local and statewide fishing groups, who argued they had been left out of the consultation process.
"We're pleased fishers got to sit down with traditional owners following the draft plans, and we've now, as of today, seen a much better outcome for fishing." "The thousand islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago have coral reef systems, seagrass beds, really productive river mouths, very important cultural areas."
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