A marine park should fix it...

[IQS.RLOW]

Quick freeloader, put a marine park around it...maybe ban floods and fine god if he digresses
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011 ... ion=justin

Much of south-east Queensland's flood debris is threatening the ecology of Brisbane's Moreton Bay, with floods impacting 1,700 kilometres of the coastline, from the border to Cooktown.

Scientists have now begun an assessment of the damage in Moreton Bay after huge amounts of flood detritus from the Brisbane catchment rivers ended up in the bay adjacent to the city.

The amount of sediment that has washed into Moreton Bay has shocked Queensland Sustainability Minister Kate Jones.

"It is quite clear in the water quality how much sediment has been lost and is now in our bay," she said.

"This is a real threat to the sea grasses, which are the habitat and the food supply for our turtles and dugongs.

"This information that we receive from the water monitoring program will obviously inform how we best spend our dollars in regard to recovery."

[boxy]

I don't doubt for one minute, that our land management practices have impacted severly on the outcome of this natural event. More topsoil has flowed out to sea, more toxic materials... more random debris.

Nature parks can only do so much, but they're better than nothing.

[IQS.RLOW]

More topsoil has flowed out to sea, more toxic materials... more random debris.

Since the last one? You are a fucking genius

[Ethnic]

Oh it's horrendous. Our poor life systems have only had about 3 billion years to adapt to floods and debris. How will they ever cope?

[Jovial Monk]

Chemical fertilisers? Oil residues? High nutrient loads?

[IQS.RLOW]

Chemical fertilisers? Oil residues? High nutrient loads?

Yeah, a marine park should fix it

[Ethnic]

IQ has a point. How is a marine park going to protect marine species from the impact of pollution and, if you believe in it, AGW? A marine park will only prevent some fisherman from accessing it. Current marine parks are poorly monitored and much illegally fishing occurs. If 30% of our coast is to become a marine park, you really think we can police it? The government won't provide nearly enough resources. Marine parks are just the latest weapon of the Greens and their ridiculous anti-fishing agenda. Nothing to do with protecting animals and everything to do with the Greenies, once again, trying to restrict our freedoms. Seriously what kind of sad cases are people like Bob Brown that they wish to enforce their own boring, unfulfilled, black and white lives onto the rest of us?

[Outlaw Yogi]

Trawler owners I'm aquainted with reckon they have compulsory satelite tracking devices on board, and within minutes of crossing the line into a green zone, fishing authorities are on the radio demanding to know what they're doing and why they're there.

Apparently the trick is to put the tracking device and any eperbs on board into a garbage bag and leave it on a bouy before sneaking into green/exclusion zones, and retreive them later.

[Ethnic]

And what about amateur fisherman who use longlines and illegal trawlers? Do they use these too?

[boxy]

IQ has a point. How is a marine park going to protect marine species from the impact of pollution...

No he doesn't have a point, because he's the only one suggesting that it will fix all those problems, and not even he's being serious about it. Trying to make some half arsed point that marine parks are useless, because they can't protect against something that they weren't set up to protect against.