The New South Wales (NSW) government will commit $180 million to marine management, which will see funding of projects for multiple coastal communities overcoming recent natural disasters.
The funding is for the final six years of the government’s decade-long Marine Estate Management Strategy and will be handed down as part of the NSW budget next Tuesday.
Since its launch, the strategy has rehabilitated more than 130km of riverbank vegetation, reduced litter volume 13 per cent and built nine threatened seahorse hotels in Sydney Harbour.
It has also trained 80 vets in marine wildlife to improve survival rates and allowed more than 130 commercial fishers to complete best-practice preservation training….