People can now fish at marine parks under NSW changes RECREATIONAL fishers will be able to wet a line within NSW marine park sanctuary zones under changes revealed today by the state government. Primary Industries Minister Katrina Hodgkinson and Environment Minister Robyn Parker jointly announced the changes as part of a radical restructure of NSW's controversial system of marine parks. The government will establish two new advisory bodies, the Marine Estate Management Authority, to replace the existing Marine Parks Authority, and the Marine Estate Expert Knowledge Panel, a group of scientists to advise the new Authority. The minister's said ``effective immediately," recreational fishers will be allowed to fish from beaches and headlands - rock fishing - which are sanctuary zones within marine parks. The state's marine parks - attacked as a political rather than scientific scheme by a former Labor state government desperate for green votes - are divided into a variety of zones where different activities are allowed or banned. Until now no form of fishing has been allowed in sanctuary zones. Beach and headland sanctuary zones have been criticised for denying residents of coastal towns the chance to catch dinner on their local beaches if they were sanctuary zones. The ministers said boat fishing marine park rules would not change and the impact of the changes to beach and headland sanctuary zones would be assessed over the next six months. A few beach and headland sanctuary zones which protect specific threatened species will remain in force, as will beaches and healdands within large bays, like Jervis Bay.