[Cortinaboy]

Accepting all the stories about the problems with how the policy was put together doesn’t change the fact that fishing stocks are going down everywhere except in these zones. Of course there should be multi use areas too and more money to enforce existing rules, but I think it’s a good thing there’s areas that will be as pristine as we can possibly get them. I know from spearfishing how depleted areas are compared to a few decades ago and I don’t get the impression it’s any better in most other areas. Sure there are exceptions like snapper coming back in Port Philip bay but overall it seems to be mostly worse than it was, so although there might be faults with the marine parks, there’s a lot of good with them too.