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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (South-east Marine Parks Network Management Plan) Instrument 2025
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| action | Has the meaning given by section 523 of the EPBC Act. |
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| artificial reef | Has the meaning given by the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981 namely, a structure or formation placed on the seabed:(a) for the purpose of increasing or concentrating populations of marine plants and animals, or(b) for the purpose of being used in human recreational activities. |
| Australian Government or the Government | The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia. |
| Australian IUCN reserve management principles | The EPBC Act (section 348) requires the EPBC Regulations to prescribe principles for each IUCN category. These principles are the Australian IUCN reserve management principles and are found in Schedule 8 of the EPBC Act. |
| Australian Marine Parks or marine park | Protected areas in Commonwealth waters, managed to protect natural and cultural values and support ecologically sustainable use.They are Commonwealth reserves, named as Marine Parks, declared by the Governor-General by Proclamation under section 344 of the EPBC Act. |
| authorisation | As described in Section 4.5 (Authorisation of activities) of this plan. |
| ballast water | Water taken on board by vessels to maintain stability and trim. |
| bathomes | Large spatial areas characterised by bathymetric (depth-related) distribution of biota. |
| benthic | Anything associated with or occurring on the bottom of a body of water. |
| biodiversity or biological diversity | Has the meaning given by section 528 of the EPBC Act. |
| biologically important areas | Areas where a protected species displays a biologically important behaviour such as breeding, foraging, resting or migration. These areas serve to highlight the parts of a marine region that are particularly important for the conservation of protected species. |
| bioregion (provincial and mesoscale) | A large area that has similar types of plants, animals and ocean conditions compared with other similarly sized areas and, in this document, those bioregions as defined in the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia Version 4.0.Australia’s marine environment is divided into 41 provincial bioregions in waters deeper than 200 m, and 60 mesoscale bioregions in waters shallower than 200 m. |