Annex 12 - Code 12 - Declared fish habitat area

State code 12: Development in a declared fish habitat area
Table 12.2.2: Building work or operational works
  Performance outcomes                                      Acceptable outcomes                    Response
  Prescribed development purposes
  PO1 Development is only undertaken for a                  No acceptable outcome is prescribed.   Complies with PO1
  prescribed development purpose in a declared fish
  habitat area, which are:                                                                         The works are for the purposes of restoring fish
                                                                                                   habitat and natural processes in declared fish habitat
      1. for management A areas and management B
                                                                                                   management A areas in the Noosa River estuary.
         areas:
         a. restoring the fish habitat or natural                                                  Rock oyster ecosystems once occurred in the Noosa
             processes; or                                                                         River estuary. The works will restore these systems
         b. managing fisheries resources or fish                                                   by providing the rock and shell foundations for their
             habitat; or                                                                           natural recovery.
         c. researching, including monitoring or
                                                                                                   The purpose of the works is for the benefit of fish
             educating; or                                                                         habitats, fisheries productivity and natural ecological
         d. ensuring public health or safety; or                                                   processes within the declared FHA.
         e. providing public infrastructure to facilitate
             fishing; or                                                                           The disturbance areas proposed for restoration are in
         f. providing subterranean public                                                          a degraded condition resulting in reduced fisheries
             infrastructure if the surface of the area                                             productivity. A full description of the site conditions of
                                                                                                   the proposed restoration sites is given in the Project
             can be restored, after the completion of
                                                                                                   Restoration Plan, Section 4: Restoration Sites, as
             the works or activity, to its condition,                                              well as in Annex 1 to the plan: Noosa River Habitat
             before the performance of the works or                                                Survey.
             activity; or
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