Annex 12 - Code 12 - Declared fish habitat area

  Performance outcomes                                   Acceptable outcomes                                Response
                                                                                                            habitat A areas, but the majority of area suitable for
                                                                                                            restoration is within the fish habitat A area.

                                                                                                            There are no ancillary elements that could be located
                                                                                                            outside of tidal land.

  PO4 The spatial extent of development within the       For development involving bridge infrastructure:   Not bridge infrastructure
  declared fish habitat area is minimised to the
  greatest extent practical.                             AO4.1 Bridge abutments are sited outside the       The works are designed to minimise the spatial
                                                         declared fish habitat area.                        extent of the development within the declared fish
                                                         AND                                                habitat area. Any disturbance caused by the works to
                                                                                                            marine plants, ecological processes or physical
                                                                                                            attributes of the fish habitat area will be temporary.

                                                                                                            The total area temporarily impacted in the fish habitat
                                                                                                            A area in phase 1 restoration works is 0.6ha
                                                                                                            (Tewantin and Goat Island restoration footprints). If
                                                                                                            the total fish habitat area in the Noosa River is
                                                                                                            60.8km2, then the proposed portion of the restoration
                                                                                                            works in the fish habitat area is 0.002%.

                                                                                                            All areas outside the fish habitat area have been
                                                                                                            assessed for ecological suitability and social
                                                                                                            acceptability (based on the maintenance of access to
                                                                                                            the waterway and avoiding public and private
                                                                                                            infrastructure in and alongside the river), and with
                                                                                                            these exclusions, most of the available restoration
                                                                                                            space is within the fish habitat A area. The Noosa

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