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In April 2018, Parks Australia and James Cook University scientists began a three year program to monitor the health of some of Australia’s remotest and most pristine coral reefs in the Coral Sea Marine Park.

The natural park of the Coral Sea now has 28,000 square kilometres (10,810 square miles) of reserves. Three decrees adopted Tuesday, august 14 by the government of New Caledonia define very precisely the outlines.

The activities conducted in 2016 are to discover in a report of twenty pages, richly illustrated. You can to see at a glance, and for each party, the related objectives of the Management Plan.

As every year, and since 2007, a team from the Department of Fisheries and Marine Environment (SPE) of the Direction of Maritime Affairs go to the Entrecasteaux atolls, located in the far north of Caledonia to perform a turtles tracking.

In Australian waters, Parks Australia is developing a management plan that sets out the zones and rules for activities in the Coral Sea Marine Park.

The Coral is being targeted for sea cucumber (bêche de mer) by Vietnamese fishing vessels. The Australian Government is coopororating with foreign governments to detect and stop illegal fishing.

The Australian Government is working to better understand and protect the species and ecosystems of the Coral sea.

From February 24 to March 15, Francesca Benzoni, a marine biologist at the IRD, led a mission of scientists, around Grande-Terre but also in the natural park on the north-western reef of Entrecasteaux, a World Heritage Site Of Unesco.

2 485 tonnes of fish were caught in 2016 by New Caledonian deep-sea fishers in the natural park. What kind of fish is it? Analysis.

A study on the cultural dimension of the Coral Sea Natural Park was carried out at the request of the customary members of its management committee. The first results were presented on October 11 in Koné, then on the 17th in Noumea.