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Interaction of ports and shipping with mangrove habitats
Management Concern: Low
Adequacy of Information: Moderate
Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009
- The overall area of mangrove forest adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef appears to be generally stable except where there is significant coastal development.
- The impacts of dredging and construction of port facilities - such as seabed disturbance, transport or re-suspension of contaminants, alteration of sediment movement and changes in coastal processes - can be significant, but are localised.
What do we know?
Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:
- Diversity and distribution of mangroves in the Great Barrier Reef
[822KB] - Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean
- Changes to mangroves and salt marshes in several estuaries
- Mangrove distribution and diversity
- Shipping voyages in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Shipping incidents in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Major shipping incidents in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Great Barrier Reef oil spill risk and equipment
- The 2006 Gladstone oil spill: environmental impacts
- Dredging at the Port of Hay Point
Existing policies and management actions
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
- Plans of Management
- State Coastal Management Plan 2002
- Coastal Ecosystem Management Position Paper
- Permits
- Water quality and coastal development
- Memorandum of Understanding between GBRMPA and Queensland Ports [1.34MB]
- Cruise Shipping Policy for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park [113KB]
- Dredging and Spoil Disposal Policy [525KB]
- Environmental Impact Management Policy [900KB]
Future management requirements
- Draft Queensland Coastal Management Plan
- Biodiversity strategy
- Planned review of the Dredging and Spoil Disposal Policy
Defined research questions
- What natural and human influences affect the distribution and abundance of mangroves and wetlands?
- What are resilience thresholds for mangrove habitats?
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