2020-09-14 GC Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 2 - Independent Scientific Review of Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

                                                                                                                             Source of   Assessment and
    #            Prompt                              Notes
                                                                                                                             information recommendations.
                                                     presentations, number of volunteers etc) are included in Annex 1        1, pg 10-15,
                                                     (MER Plan).                                                             Annex 5
                                                                                                                             MER Plan,
                                                                                                                             Annex 1 pg.
                                                                                                                             52-88.
    9            If any species are introduced       It’s not entirely clear whether the project will rely on natural        Project        Unclear.
                 to the site, will provenance        recruitment or whether juvenile native oysters will be pre-seeded       Plan, pg.
                                                                                                                                            Recommendation 4. If any
                 records be kept?                    onto recycled shells in a hatchery before deployment or adult           54, 77
                                                                                                                                            species, including oyster
                                                     stock will be translocated. If hatchery stock are used it’s not clear
                                                                                                                                            stock, are introduced to the
                                                     to the reviewer where that will be sourced from (it may be local).
                                                                                                                                            site from elsewhere,
                                                     Regardless, it is good practice for the provenance records of any
                                                                                                                                            provenance records should
                                                     species introduced to the site to be kept.
                                                                                                                                            be kept.
    10           Do the indicators track             Yes outcome measures are being tracked.                                 MER Plan,      Met
                 progress to the project                                                                                     Annex 1 pg.
                 objectives outcomes and                                                                                     52-88.
                 targets?
    11           Has baseline ecosystem              Yes. Previous investigations include TNC Oyster Restoration             Project        Met
                 monitoring been undertaken?         Scoping Study and USC experimental project 2018-2020 that               Plan
                                                     collected important ecological information.
                                                                                                                             Pg. 8
    12           Has an appropriate ecological       The nearest known reference rock oyster system is in Moreton            Project        Met
                 reference condition system          Bay. In the absence of a suitable local reference site, the project     Plan pg. 31
                 or conceptual framework             will use an interim target reference system, based on an ecological
                                                                                                                             MER Plan
                 been identified?                    model of the rock oyster ecosystem developed using research8 and
                                                                                                                             pg. 63
                                                     local monitoring results.




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    Refer McLeod et al. (2019) and MacAfee et al. (in review).

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