the reef biota at Wilsons promontory marine national - Parks Victoria

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Parks Victoria Technical Series #74SRMP Wilsons Promontory MNPFigure 1.6. Wilsons Promontory marine protected areas: Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park;Wilsons Promontory Marine Park and Wilsons Promontory Marine Reserve.11
Parks Victoria Technical Series #74SRMP Wilsons Promontory MNP2. METHODS2.1. Site Selection and Survey TimesDuring the first survey at Wilsons Promontory, every effort was made to survey as many sitesas possible, with the intention of sampling a surplus of sites. The benefits of this were to:provide the most comprehensive description of the marine flora and fauna around thePromontory; enable selection of the most appropriate sites for the long-term monitoringprogram; and safeguard the monitoring design against possible boundary changes beforethe sanctuary zone was declared. Additional field assistance was provided by Dr NevilleBarrett and Alistair Morton from the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, and thesea conditions enabled the census of three sites a day, for much of the excursion.Consequently, twenty-eight sites were sampled between 30 November and 9 December1999.The sites were located in four general regions around the Promontory: northwest referencearea, north of the Marine National Park; western Marine National Park; eastern MarineNational Park; and northeast reference area (Figure 2.3; Table 2.1). Three island sites weresampled outside the proposed sanctuary, on Shellback and Norman Islands, and three insidethe proposed sanctuary, on Great Glennie and Anser Islands. The sites encompassed thefull range of reef habitats present at the Promontory, including sub-maximally exposed sitesat Norman Island, Great Glennie Island and Sea Eagle Bay, to relatively sheltered habitats atnorth Shellback Island, Great Glennie Island, Waterloo Bay and The Hat north of SealersCove; Figure 2.1). The reef structures varied from steep plunging or stepped reefs, to moregently sloping (but high relief) boulder and bombie fields, to relatively flat bedrock and rubblereefs. A brief description of each site is provided in Table 2.1.A set of 20 core monitoring sites were selected as a subset the initial monitoring sites (Figure2.1; Appendix A).12
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