<P> The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities . It is a vast multiple - use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports and shipping, recreation, scientific research and Indigenous traditional use . Fishing and the removal of artefacts or wildlife (fish, coral, seashells, etc .) is strictly regulated, and commercial shipping traffic must stick to certain specific defined shipping routes that avoid the most sensitive areas of the park . The Great Barrier Reef is the largest and best known coral reef ecosystem in the world . Its reefs, almost 3000 in total, represent about 10 per cent of all the coral reef areas in the world . It supports an amazing variety of biodiversity, providing a home to thousands of coral and other invertebrate species, bony fish, sharks, rays, marine mammals, marine turtles, sea snakes, as well as algae and other marine plants . </P> <P> The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) is responsible for the care and protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park . It uses a range of tools to manage the marine park including Acts and Regulations, zoning plan, plans of management, Traditional Owner agreements, partnerships, stewardship and best practice, education, research and monitoring and reporting . It issues permits for various forms of use of the marine park, and monitors usage in the park to ensure compliance with rules and regulations associated with the park . GBRMPA is funded by Commonwealth Government appropriations and an environmental management charge levied on the permit - holders' passengers . Currently this is A $6.00 per day per passenger (to a maximum of $16.50 per trip). </P> <P> The marine park lies east of the mainland coast of Queensland, starting in the north at Cape York . Its northern boundary is the circle of latitude 10 ° 41'S (running east up to the eastern edge of the Great Barrier Reef at 145o19'33 "E), thereby encompassing those few uninhabited Torres Strait Islands that are east of Cape York, south of 10 ° 41'S and north of 11 ° 00'S . The largest of those island are Albany Island (5.9 km or 2.3 sq mi), Turtle Head Island 12.8 km or 4.9 sq mi and Trochus Island 2.2 km or 0.85 sq mi . Further islands are Mai Island 0.25 km or 0.097 sq mi, Bush Island 0.2 km or 0.077 sq mi, Tree Islet 0.01 km or 0.0039 sq mi, Brewis Island 0.05 km or 0.019 sq mi, and a few unnamed islets . </P> <P> As of 2016, zones within the marine park has been categorized into the following IUCN protected area categories: </P>

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