Submission on Australia's Draft 2011 National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (Draft Shark-Plan 2)

Draft Shark–plan 2 Public Consultation Submissions

To date the following public submissions have been received on the draft 2011 Australia’s National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (Shark–plan 2). To ensure equitable access to the public submissions, they have been reformatted to HTML or provided in a Microsoft Word document to allow screen readers to view them. This may have resulted in changes to the appearance of some submissions. Copies of submissions received via hard copy are available by contacting:

Manager, Fisheries Policy and Environment
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
GPO Box 858
Canberra ACT 2601
Email Sharkplan2

Faxes can be sent to: +61 2 6272 4875 (Attention: Manager, Fisheries Policy and Environment)

Responses received:

• AFMA  PDF [83kb]
• Australian Coral Reef society Inc  PDF [318kb]
• Australian Marine Conservation Society  PDF [1.1mb]
• Beasley, Michael
• Butler, Simon
• Commonwealth Fisheries Association
• Commonwealth Fisheries Association - additional
• Conservation Council SA
• CSIRO 
• Department of Fisheries WA
• Department of Sustainablility, Environment, Water, Population and Communities  PDF [642kb]
• Edward, Jenny
• Environment Tasmania 
• Fisheries Queensland 
• Gartlan, Jessie
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 
• Humane Society International
• Nature Conservation Council of NSW
• Northern Territory Government Department of Resources - Fisheries  PDF [871kb]
• NT Offshore New & Line Licensee Committee
• Primary Industries NSW Government  PDF [100kb]
• Rooney, Emma
• Rooney, Emma
• Schinkel, Maurice  PDF [63kb]  
• Simpfendorfer, Colin 
• Snell, Jillian  PDF [318kb]
• Submission 1
• Submission 2
• Submission 3
• TARFish 
• The Australian Anti Shark Finning Alliance (TAASFA)
• The Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland
• The Wilderness Society Australia Inc
• Thompson, Nicole
• Tropical Tuna
• Van Vauuren, Stephen
• VRFish
• Wanner, Fabian
• Ward, Vivian  PDF [152kb]
• Western Australian Naturalists Club
• WWF and Traffic 

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