The purpose of this petition is to voice recreational fishers strong objection to the creation of any further Marine Park within NSW.

Protecting biodiversity is not best served by locking anglers out of sanctuary zones but by implementing public works to restore water quality, halt siltation and to remove indiscriminate netting of the nursery areas, i.e. the estuaries.

Recreational fishing has immediately improved when estuaries such as Botany Bay, Sydney Harbour and Lake Macquarie are protected by removal of commercial fishing.

We call on the NSW State Government and local councils to unequivocaly state that additoinal Marine parks will not be implemented