Rezone area as a special managed area for recreation and tourism

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
T Vievers
8 Camellia Drive
BONGAREE QLD
Total Signatures - 40
Sponsoring Member: Carryn Sullivan MP
Posting Date: 8/3/2005
Tabled Date: 8/3/2005
Responded By: Henry Palaszczuk on 13/5/2005
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

The following petitioners, in the Moreton Bay region, would like to
request the rezoning of the area (Deception Bay, from Castlereagh Point
at Scarborough to the southern tip of Bribie Island and including
approximately 200 metres out from the low water mark in the Bay along the
eastern shoreline of Bribie Island to 8th Avenue, Woorim) to a S.M.A.R.T.
(Special Managed Area for Recreation and Tourism) zone.

Recreational fishers are disadvantaged by the quantity of the commercial
harvest and are finding the large amounts of netting to be a navigational
hazard.

These areas are a valuable spawning and breeding ground for fish species
in the Moreton Bay area which contains some internationally recognised
ecosystems. If these areas are declared a recreational fish ground, we
believe the area will prove to be a more sustainable nursery for the many
valuable fish species in Moreton Bay.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to take action to rezone the
area (from the 4 wheel drive track on Bribie Island's ocean beach
opposite 8th Avenue, Woorim, approximately 200 metres out from the low-
tide mark to Castlereagh Point, Scarborough) as a S.M.A.R.T (Special
Managed Area for Recreation and Tourism) zone.