LIST Marine Nature Reserves

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

The Marine Nature Reserve dataset includes areas of Tasmanian State Waters that have been defined as Marine Nature Reserves by the Tasmanian Fisheries Rules 1999. Where part of the Reserve allows restricted fishing, a separate region is created for that part with a note in the Comment field of "Restricted Take". All other Marine Nature Reserves prohibit fishing. Refer to Fisheries Rules 1999 (SR158 of 1999) for details. The Marine Nature Reserves contained within this dataset are: Governor Island Marine Nature Reserve, Maria Island Marine Nature Reserve, Ninepin Point Marine Nature Reserve, Tinderbox Marine Nature Reserve, Kent Group Marine Nature Reserve, Port Davey/Bathurst Harbour Marine Nature Reserve.

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Field Value
Title LIST Marine Nature Reserves
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/35c9787b-dcd6-4e9f-be6b-d299d653ee52
Contact Point
Tasmania Government's The List Data
listhelp@nre.tas.gov.au
Reference Period 23/11/2006
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        143.5,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        149.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        149.0,
        -39.0
      ],
      [
        143.5,
        -39.0
      ],
      [
        143.5,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Tasmania TheList

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Tasmania TheList "LIST Marine Nature Reserves". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.thelist.tas.gov.au/datagn/srv/eng/csw/dataset/list-marine-nature-reserves