2022-04-12 Planning & Environment Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   12 APRIL 2022




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                              12 APRIL 2022

           widely used and highly successful method of ensuring against low natural oyster recruitment
           and can be used to help recover reefs impacted by events such as disease outbreaks.

        4. Regular consultations with relevant experts in shellfish, shellfish diseases, oyster aquaculture
           and/or shellfish restoration about environmental risks such as disease:

           o.  Dr Ben Diggles, Digfish Services — independent marine pathologist, advisor to DAF and
               Queensland expert in marine invertebrate diseases and pests such as QX and winter
               mortality
           o   Dr Stephen Welsche, shellfish aquaculture and QX expert, DAF biosecurity division +
               member of the Noosa TAG
           ©   Rebecca Schofield, DAF aquaculture specialist and member of the Noosa TAG
           ©   Wayne O'Conner, Sydney Rock Oyster aquaculture expert, Department of Primary
               Industries, NSW
           o   Dr Vicki Cole, specialist shellfish restoration ecologist, Department of Primary Industries,
               NSW
           o   Dr Max Wingfield — Shellfish specialist and lead officer for the planned Noosa oyster seeding
               project, Bribie Island Research Centre (DAF)

           As well as TNC’s internal expert team:
           ©   Dr Boze Handcock, TNC global shellfish restoration lead scientist
           o   Dr Eddie Game, TNC Lead Scientist & Director of Conservation, Asia Pacific
           o.  Dr Chris Gillies, marine invertebrate ecologist and past Director of Australia Oceans Program

        5. Drawn on experience gained from other projects and processes where QX and winter mortality
           disease are also endemic. These projects include:

               ©   Dr Ben Diggles, Ozfish and Healthy Land and Water led - Pumicestone Passage, Moreton
                   Bay pilot Sydney Rock Oyster restoration project
               ©   Department of Primary Industry led - Port Stephens, Sydney Rock Oyster restoration
                   project
               ©  TNCin partnership with DPI - Sydney Rock Oyster Restoration Project — Botany Bay, NSW
               ©  TNCin partnership with DPI - Sydney Rock Oyster Restoration Project — Wagonga Inlet,
                   NSW

        5. Developed a comprehensive Project Restoration Plan for Noosa oyster restoration which includes
        detailed restoration monitoring and adaptive management procedures which will be used if
        environmental hazards hinder oyster reef restoration. One key response to high oyster mortality is
        oyster reseeding in future years, if the project requires this additional measure.

        6. Developed a comprehensive site-by-site restoration monitoring, evaluation and reporting system,
        which will used by TNC and its contract ecologists to track and report on the ecological performance
        of Noosa’s oyster reefs and which will guide any future adaptive management required to ensure
        their restoration success.

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