<div><strong>Create Collaroy Basin Sanctuary</strong>
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<div><strong>Protect the Northern Rock Platform at Long Reef – Create Collaroy Basin Sanctuary - A Small No-Take Sanctuary Zone</strong>
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<div>We are Friends of Collaroy Basin Sanctuary
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<div>We call on the NSW Government, Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries) and Northern Beaches Council to create Collaroy Basin Sanctuary — a small no-take sanctuary zone on the northern rock platform at Long Reef.
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<div>Why we need this – quick points
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<div>•  Tiny ~435 metre section from near Ocean Grove Street (including Crocodile Rock) north to the Collaroy rock pool and 100 metre distance in the ocean
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<div>•  Vital fish nursery for juvenile bream, luderick, snapper, baby sharks and stingrays
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<div>•  Popular family swimming and snorkelling spot where hooks are often lost on submerged rocks
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<div>•  Will rebuild the food chain and create natural spillover — more fish for the wider area, just like Shelley Beach has shown since it became a full no-take sanctuary in 2002, the only such zone on the Northern Beaches
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<div>•  Addresses visible decline: bare rocks that once had thick cunjevoi and far fewer invertebrates
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<div>•  Amateur fishing – lost hooks that are not dissolvable
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<div>•  Supports the NSW Government that is currently preparing for an anticipated review of marine protected areas in our coastal state waters. This is a critical opportunity to expand protection, but the government will only act if they hear strong support for marine sanctuaries.
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<div><strong>This is not about banning fishing</strong>
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<div>We honour Australian fishing culture and responsible local fishers. Our proposal is tiny and targeted — it leaves the boat ramp, main headland and primary fishing rock platforms untouched. It will actually help future-proof fishing by restoring the nursery and creating more fish through spillover, just like Shelley Beach.
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<div><strong>We also want</strong>
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<div>• Better signage, education and Council support to develop a willing community voluntary Citizen Rangers programme to help Fisheries stop poaching that continues at low tides
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<div>• Stronger enforcement of existing rules that includes language translations (evidence of continued poaching from those claiming they don’t speak English)
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Goblin Wizard

Peter Carson

Bill Marynissen

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Yes! We Agree ... Create Collaroy Basin Sanctuary

Just $700$ to go! Make an impact.

Yes! We Agree ... Create Collaroy Basin Sanctuary

Just $700 to go!
Make an impact.