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Status of particle feeding
Management Concern: Moderate
Adequacy of Information: Moderate
Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009
- Most populations of particle feeders are healthy, although sea cucumbers are at risk of local depletion.
What do we know?
Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:
- Water Quality effects on richness of heterotrophic octocorals
- Dredging at the Port of Hay Point
- Great Barrier Reef exposure model: total suspended solids
- Inshore reef health - nutrient, sediment and pesticide loads
- Recovery of black teatfish (beche de mer)
- Beche de mer fishery in the Great Barrier Reef
Existing policies and management actions
- Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (2009)
- Regional Water Quality Improvement Plans
- Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program
- Improving water quality
- The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
- Policy on managing activities that include the direct take of a Protected Species from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Fisheries: legislative management arrangements
- Fisheries: other management tools
- Fisheries: information systems
- Implementation of WTO conditions and recommendations from the latest EPBC assessment: progress by fishery
- East coast fin fish fishery independent review
- Queensland Fisheries Strategy 2009-2014
- Queensland Fisheries policies and legislation
- Queensland Fisheries monitoring
- Queensland Management of Commercial Fisheries
- Queensland Management of Recreational Fisheries
- Dredging and Spoil Disposal Policy
[525KB] - Environmental Impact Management Policy [900KB
- Memorandum of Understanding between GBRMPA and Queensland Ports [1.34MB]
- Australian Government policy on climate change
- Queensland Government climate change policies and strategies
- Climate Change Action Plan 2007-2012
Future management requirements
- Future management requirements in this area are being guided by ongoing assessment of emerging research outcomes and issues identified by the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009.
Defined research questions
- There are currently no defined research questions for this topic. Research questions will be developed, giving priority to interactions/issues that are of most concern to management.
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