Annex 12 - Code 12 - Declared fish habitat area

  Performance outcomes                                      Acceptable outcomes                                   Response
                                                                                                                  Footprint as a percentage of the site - 66%
                                                                                                                  Approximate shoreline length – 168 metres

                                                                                                                  Noosa Sound West
                                                                                                                  Restoration site area – 937m2
                                                                                                                  Rock footprint – 615m2
                                                                                                                  Footprint as a percentage of the site - 66%
                                                                                                                  Approximate shoreline length – 92 metres

  Prescribed development purposes
  PO2 When development is proposed for any of the           For development to ensure public health and safety:   Complies with PO2
  purposes mentioned in PO1, there is a demonstrated
  need for the development, and for the following types     AO2.1 Development is:                                 This project seeks to extend previous trial oyster
  of development, alternative locations outside the            1. for a public health purpose and has been        restoration efforts inside and outside declared fish
  declared fish habitat area have been assessed and                formally endorsed as being necessary by        habitat A areas, to restore natural processes and fish
  are not viable:                                                  Queensland Health or the relevant              habitat provided by oyster ecosystems. The total
      1. for management A areas and management B                   government authority; or                       area to be restored in Phase I is 6,684m2, which is
          areas:                                               2. for mosquito control and is required to be      only 2 to 9% of the possible growth envelope of
               a. researching, including monitoring or             carried out under a mosquito management        41,530m2 to 207,650 m2 as calculated by Ecological
                  educating; or                                    plan developed in accordance with the          Service Professionals in 2016 (see Section 1.3
               b. ensuring public health or safety; or             Mosquito management code of practice for       Historic Occurrence, Project Restoration Plan). The
               c. providing public infrastructure to               Queensland, Local Government Association       potential growth envelope encompasses areas both
                  facilitate fishing; or                           of Queensland, 2014 and do not include         inside and outside fish habitat A areas, but the
               d. providing subterranean public                    works for the control of other nuisance pest   majority of area suitable for restoration is within the
                  infrastructure if the surface of the             insect species (for example, midges); or       fish habitat A area.
                  area can be restored, after the              3. for an aid to navigation and is endorsed in
                  completion of the works or activity, to          writing by Department of Transport and Main    Furthermore, the designs have been purposefully
                                                                                                                  created to maximise potential for successful

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