Mainland marine park management plan

What’s this about?

Marine parks have been established in NSW since 1998 to protect and conserve the biodiversity of our coast and marine environment for everyone to enjoy.  

The NSW Government is developing a new approach that sets out how the five mainland marine parks are managed along the NSW coast under the Mainland Marine Park Network Management Plan.

This new approach to evidence-based marine park management conserves not just environmental, but also social, cultural, and economic values of marine parks while reducing threats to those values via a range of tools.

The draft 10-year plan sets out a simpler and more consistent approach to managing all five marine parks along the coast of mainland NSW.

The five mainland Marine Parks in NSW are:

• Cape Byron Marine Park
• Solitary Islands Marine Park
• Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park
• Jervis Bay Marine Park
• Batemans Marine Park.

What is decided now will inform how these parks are managed over the next 10 years.  

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