The Coral Sea must be declared a protected zone to save sharks and some other marine species from rapid extinction, says the conservation group WWF.
The organisation says two separate reports show many Coral Sea marine species are isolated and vulnerable to overfishing.
It is home to populations of whitetip and grey reef sharks, nautilus, maori wrasse and other fish species, which WWF says have been decimated in similar habitats around the world.
"For this reason alone, we are renewing our calls to the federal government to declare the entire Coral Sea a marine protected area," WWF spokeswoman Gilly Llewellyn said.
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