Draft threat abatement plan for the impacts of marine debris on marine vertebrate life

"In August 2003, ‘Injury and fatality to vertebrate marine life caused by ingestion of, or entanglement in, harmful marine debris’ was listed as a key threatening process under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). This threat abatement plan (TAP) aims to provide a coordinated national approach to the implementation of measures to prevent and mitigate the impacts of harmful marine debris on vertebrate marine life. Detailed information supporting this TAP is provided in the Background paper for the threat abatement plan for the impacts of marine debris on vertebrate marine life (Commonwealth of Australia, 2008). The background paper describes in more detail the key threatening process and its management via prevention, removal and mitigation."