2022-04-12-P&E Agenda - Item 6 - Attachment 1 - TNC Noosa_Oyster Project _6_Monthly_Report

Table 3: Community Partnerships Update

 Project area       Objective                    Partnership                       Status
 Shuck Don’t        Engage local businesses      3 restaurants participating in    Restaurants enthusiastically
 Chuck              in the project               supplying local oyster shell to   collecting, washing, and
                                                 the project as Shuck Don’t        storing shells.
                                                 Chuck partners:
                                                      • Noosa Yacht and            Contractor engaged to
                                                          Rowing Club              collect shell from
                                                      • Noosa Harbor Fish          restaurants on a fortnightly
                                                          Market                   basis.
                                                      • Grenny’s Noosa by the
                                                          River
                    Collect oyster shells to     Resource Recovery Australia       More than 10 tonnes of
                    add to oyster beds and       (RRA), Cleanaway and              oyster shell are now clean
                    for use in oyster            Mooloolaba Fish Market            and awaiting seeding or
                    gardening                                                      construction
 Water quality      Improve resolution of        NICA to provide water quality     Partnership established
 monitoring         water quality data sets at   information at the oyster
                    the oyster restoration       restoration sites                 Baseline monitoring has
                    sites                                                          commenced
 Oyster gardening   Engage local households,     NICA to implement oyster          Partnership established
                    businesses and/or groups     gardening, beginning with a
                    in the project               pilot phase, then review and      Grant agreement in place
                                                 consideration of upscaling, if    and work has commenced
                    Improve public               practical
                    knowledge about
                    shellfish restoration
 Indigenous         Support the aspirations of   Noosa and District Landcare to    Partnership established
 inclusion          Kabi Kabi Nation             involve indigenous youth in
                                                 hands-on or on-water actions,     Events to be planned on an
                    Benefit from traditional     where opportunities arise.        ongoing basis.
                    knowledge
                                                                                   Endorsement from Kabi Kabi
                                                                                   elders and permission to
                                                                                   integrate traditional
                                                                                   knowledge in project-
                                                                                   related products secured.

                                                                                   Elders kept up to date with
                                                                                   project happenings. TNC will
                                                                                   meet with elders as they
                                                                                   request.
 Schools’           Engage local schools in      Noosa Environmental Hub to        Partnerships established
 participation      the project                  integrate Sunshine State High     and activities in planning
                                                 School into the project           and underway.
                    Improve public
                    knowledge about              Noosa Biosphere Community
                    shellfish restoration        Association to carry out school
                                                 activities and indigenous river

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