The hunting of turtle and dugong will be restricted to four months of
the year under Queensland's first traditional hunting agreement.
Parks and Wildlife and the Angumothimaree people have signed the
agreement to protect marine resources in the Pine River near Weipa.
Permits will be issued by traditional owners between December and March
allowing the capture of one male dugong or turtle for cultural purposes.
Brian Singleton, from Parks and Wildlife, says similar management plans
may be adopted by other indigenous communities next year.
"There has been interest at the next river system, the Mission river,
and there's also been interest on the east coast at Lockhart and the
Lama Lama people down around the Princess Chgarlkotte Bay area have also
expressed interest in looking at a community-based management plan for
that area," he said.
"It's taken around two years but now that we have got a template to work
off, the others should be a lot quicker and a lot smoother and we've got
something to take around to communities to show them and they can look
at that and say 'this is something we can work with or you know we'd
like something very similar'." |
