Professor Tasman Crowe:

I agree. There are probably several points at which one would want to take on board a stakeholder view, one of which would be the identification process. The provision in the Bill for stakeholders - essentially anybody - to propose to identify a potential MPA is a valuable part of the legislation. Then there is the provision for a kind of filtering process whereby we consider which of these we really want to stand over and what the regulations within them will be. That has to come. Then we must ask what the objectives will be and what the regulations within them will be. This comes between the proposed potential identification and the designation. That conversation is critical. Those conversations are a pivotal part in the process.