Annex 11 - Code 11 - Marine Plants

  Performance outcomes                                         Acceptable outcomes                    Response
                                                                                                      passage, then removed once restoration structures
                                                                                                      have been deployed.

                                                                                                      See Project Restoration Plan, Section 6.4 Sediment
                                                                                                      management for elaboration
  Restoration
  PO29 Restoration does not:                                   No acceptable outcome is prescribed.   Complies with PO29
                                                                                                      The purpose of this proposed development is to
  1. compromise condition of fish habitats or fisheries                                               restore once prolific oyster reef habitat, which was
     productivity; or                                                                                 removed historically. Oyster reefs are known to
  2. substitute a particular fish habitat for another type                                            provide significant habitat for a range of fish species
     of habitat, for example, creation of mangrove                                                    and improved habitat condition.
     communities from other tidal fish habitats; or
  3. substitute a natural fish habitat for artificial fish                                            Works propose restoration of a fish habitat type and
                                                                                                      has the potential to enhance fisheries productivity.
     habitat; or
                                                                                                      Works are proposed where oyster beds are assessed
  4. deliver fish habitats that are likely to be regularly                                            to have been once present, or likely to have been
     disturbed, such as through predictable sediment                                                  present based analyses of historic data and
     removal or maintenance dredging; or                                                              assessment of the location of remnant shell beds and
  5. deliver fish habitats that will predictably be at a                                              the distribution of oysters in the estuarine system
     high risk of contamination and/or further                                                        today.
     disturbance.
                                                                                                      The Tewantin restoration site is a degraded rocky
                                                                                                      reef, which the project will offset with augmentation by
  Note: For further guidance refer to Restoration of fish                                             enhancing the rocky character and encouraging
  habitats: Fisheries guidelines for marine areas (FHG 002),                                          ecosystem restoration of degraded invertebrate and
  Department of Primary Industries, 1998.                                                             macroalgal species associated with oyster
                                                                                                      ecosystems.
  Restoration works authorised through an
  endorsed restoration plan under the code for                                                        The works will provide restoration structures on which
  self- assessable development MP06 – Minor                                                           oyster ecosystems will establish and deliver
  impact works in a declared fish habitat area or                                                     ecosystem benefits to the diversity of marine habitats
  involving the removal, destruction or damage of                                                     and fisheries and that, by engineering design, are
  marine plants, Department of Agriculture,                                                           stable and unlikely to be disturbed by sediment
                                                                                                      removal or maintenance dredging.
  Fisheries and Forestry, 2013, do not require a
  development permit.                                                                                 The sites are unlikely to be at risk of contamination
                                                                                                      and/or further disturbance due to careful habitat and
                                                                                                      restoration suitability modelling and ecological
                                                                                                      assessments, which informed suitable site selection.

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