2022-10-24 General Committee Meeting- Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Oyster Ecosystem Restoration Project - Final Report (1)

As part of the partnership with BIRC, TNC was recently invited to present at the recent Oyster Research and Development
Workshop to oyster farmers, oyster and marine research specialists from 4 universities, and business groups and NGOs. In all
there were 70 oyster and marine focused specialists in the workshop (Figure 14). The event was hosted by Department of
Agriculture and Fisheries to improve the development of oyster research and restoration and oyster farming practices in
Queensland.




Figure 14: Noosa Project Manager, Craig Bohm, presenting at the Oyster Research and Development Workshop (September
2022) at BIRC. Photo by M Connell.


Seagrass report
In 2021, The Nature Conservancy contracted ESP
to undertake an assessment of current and
historical distribution of seagrass in the Noosa
estuary. ESP found that since 1989, the Noosa
River estuary has lost 80 percent of its seagrass
and is showing no signs of recovery. In 1989,
seagrass covered 337.4 hectares of Noosa
estuary. By 2006, this coverage had fallen to just
53.7 ha. The largest seagrass declines have been
in the main channel, Lake Weyba and Lake
Cooroibah.

TNC appreciates the opportunity to have
worked, and continues to work with NC and ESP
to explore solutions to this challenge.

See Annex 36 – Full report
See Annex 33 – Summary report for general
consumption




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