A VICTORIAN water catchment expert has reinforced a push by Launceston's Tamar estuary users for an independent authority to manage the estuary.
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East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority chief executive Graeme Dear told a Launceston meeting of Tamar estuary users yesterday that river management needed a co-operative approach.
He said that the statutory authority that he headed was funded by state and federal governments to provide a whole-of-catchment approach.
Rosevears MLC Kerry Finch, who chaired yesterday's forum, said that Mr Dear's feedback supported the push by a 2009 Legislative Council select committee investigation into the Tamar and Esk rivers for an independent management authority.
The select committee intends to take its fight for an independent authority back to the state government with Mr Dear's help.
He had offered to speak to Energy Minister Bryan Green and Environment Minister Brian Wightman on the value of an independent management authority, Mr Finch said.
