Marmion Marine Park management Plan - Department of ...

effective managers of the Park. This will enable staff to concentrate more fully on their primary roleof assisting and guiding users and will lessen overall costs of Park management.Actions1. Subject to Departmental priorities and funding, provide adequate numbers of staffto enable implementation of the Marmion Marine Park management plan and toensure ongoing protection and maintenance of the Park.2. Develop working guidelines to establish the framework for regular interagencyliaison by field officers.3. Ensure field staff provide information, record use, detect infringements and monitorecosystems as their priority role.4. Continue to train CALM officers to conduct their duties professionally and developa good working relationship with the public.29.0 MARINE POLLUTIONAppropriate guidelines need to be provided and regulations implemented in order to minimisepollution of marine waters by fuel or chemicals. The discharge of wastes, including plastics, into thePark from adjacent land or waters also requires appropriate regulation. Marine pollution events andtheir clean-up are co-ordinated through a State Combat Committee, chaired by the Department ofMarine and Harbours. CALM is a technical advisory representative to this committee. In theMarmion Marine Park, CALM will advise the combat committee of conservation and recreationvalues and procedures for the prevention and clean-up of spills within the Park.Actions1. Ensure charter and other boat users in the Park and adjacent harbours adoptappropriate procedures for re-fuelling and cleaning of boats.2. Formulate guidelines to minimise the threat, and a contingency plan to clean up,spills of polluting substances. Ensure, through co-ordination by CALM, that this isundertaken with careful regard for conservation and other Marine Park values.61