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| Great Barrier Reef Tourism industry calls for reef pest intervention
Queensland tourism industry wants an emergency fund set up to deal with future outbreaks of the crown of thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Tourism Operators say they expect more problems with the starfish, despite a recent report suggesting the threat has eased.
A study by the Institute of Marine Science found no evidence to suggest there will be another outbreak in the near future.
But the tourism group says there is a large number of juvenile starfish off Cairns that would not have been picked up in the study.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Tourism Operators have lobbied the previous federal environment minister to put aside a contingency fund of up to $2 million to battle the destructive pests, and will raise the issue with the new Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, later this year.
Chairman David Windsor says early intervention is needed to control the starfish.
"One of the things that we found when we approached the Government in the past to get money for the crown of thorns starfish was it took about two years," he said.
"You've got the bureaucratic process to go through, and by that time, the crown of thorns outbreak was so severe that it was almost too late."
Mr Windsor says the pest is very destructive.
"One single crown of thorn starfish, let's say an average adult which could be just under a metre across, eats its own body diameter in coral in one night," he said.
"So if you've got thousands of starfish, that's thousands of square metres of coral that gets destroyed every night."
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on February 27 2007 10:00:19
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Common misspelling of Accommodation
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Agnes Water often called Agnes Waters and it is common for Lady Musgrave Island to be called Lady Musgrove Island and Captain Cook to Captian Cook and Capitan Cook or Captan Cook, with the Town of Seventeen Seventy now known as 1770 that would be hard to misspell for anyone. The correct spelling of Bundaburg Queensland, is Bundaberg. | | | | |
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The Great Barrier Reef runs along the Australian Queensland Coast, there are many towns from Central Queensland to Far North Queensland that offer Great Barrier Reef tours, such as fishing, scuba diving, snorkelling, cruises to Great Barrier Reef Islands, even Reef Walking and Surfing, some Islands on the Great Barrier Reef offer accommodation from Resort Style to Camping. The Southern End of the Great Barrier Reef begins from the Town of 1770 on the Queensland Discovery Coast, and extends North past Cairns, Port Douglas and Cook Town.
You will find places on this site that offer all of the above on The Great Barrier Reef as well as inland Rural areas, such as Mining Towns, Farm Stays and National Parkes, Gorges, Mountian Retreats and Beachside Towns. Use the Navigation links & Directories, if you prefer an other Langauge besides English you can click on your Counties Flag on the top right to translate all pages on Lets Connect to your prferred langauge.
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