Planning for Marine Protected Areas

1.6 Information Principles

The Forum is tasked to ensure that information used to select sites for marine protection is science and knowledge based using the best available information. The respective Ministers will consider the recommendations and use the relevant statutory and public consultation framework to establish formal protection.

This report has drawn on information from a variety of sources. The primary objective of the report is to present the best available information. This means that information contained in the report should be relevant and of good quality.

Quality information is generally characterised by being the best available, relevant to the issues, and having a high level of reliability.

For this reason public submissions should be based on information that can be referenced to personal observation or experience, technical or scientific reports or customary knowledge.

If you believe that information in the report should be corrected, or you have information that you believe has been omitted and is worth being published, or you believe some information is not represented correctly, your submission needs to explain this and to provide your name, address, telephone and/or email contact details.

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