Management Concern: Low    

Adequacy of Information: Moderate

Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009

• Only a small proportion of non-commercial fish species are monitored. For most species that are monitored, the populations appear stable. Exceptions may include groups of species that are influenced by decreases in predator numbers and groups of species influenced by the effects of declining water quality.
• Increasing coastal development is resulting in the loss of both coastal habitats that support the Great Barrier Reef and connectivity between habitats.
  

What do we know?

Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:

• Fish diversity in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
  
• The effects of marine reserve protection on trophic relationships
  
• Abundance patterns of predatory fishes
  
• Effects of rezoning on biomass of coral trout
  
• Concern for grey mackerel and garfish [400KB]
  
• Australian Institute of Marine Science Long Term Monitoring Program: fish [30MB]
  
• Reef fish species richness and abundance  (generated from Australian Institute of Marine Science data)
  
• e-ATLAS: Fish communities of the Great Barrier Reef - AIMS LTMP data
  
• Queensland's coast: managing its future
• Catchment land uses
• Land-sourced pollutants and their impacts on water quality
• Land use and pollutant losses
• Development intensification and water quality pressures on the Great Barrier Reef ecosystems
• Population and recreational vessel registration growth

Existing policies and management actions

• Permit conditions for specific activities
  
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
• Environmental Impact Management Policy [900KB]
• State Coastal Management Plan 2002 
• GBRMPA involvement in coastal development planning and assessment
• Reef Guardian Councils
  
• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
  
• State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971
  
• Department of Infrastructure and Planning
  
• Regional coastal management plans 
• Coastal ecosystem protection

Future management requirements

• Draft Queensland Coastal Management Plan 
• Biodiversity strategy
  

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.

Related information

• Current Research and Monitoring