Benthic monitoring for marine farms in Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula

To satisfy resource consent conditions for monitoring at 2 mussel farm sites in Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, Pigeon Bay Aquaculture LTD commissioned NIWA to conduct a survey of the seabed beneath the 2 farm sites.Sampling for this project included a benthic grab, core samples and benthic dredge at sample sites established along 4 transects extending to the north, east, east(middle) and south of the farms. At each site, measurements and observations were performed to characterise key indicators of benthic effects including sediment grain size, sediment organic content, sediment smell and colour, depth of sediment, redox layer, infaunal community composition, epifaunal community composition, and shell drop. Results showed no evidence that the mussel farming activity had caused significant adverse impacts to the benthic habitat or communities beyond and beneath farm boundaries.
 
Citation proposal
. .
 

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date ( Creation )
2015-07-14T03:48:00
Date ( Revision )
2015-07-14T03:48:00
Purpose
The aim was to measure a suite of key seabed characteristics to detect any significant changes to seabed conditions resulting from the marine farming activity. 
Credit
Prepared for Pigeon Bay Aquaculture Limited by Stephen Brown 
Status
Completed  

  Point of contact

  Processor

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Farming

Extent

Description
Canterbury Region 

coordinates

No information provided.
N
S
E
W


TimePeriod
2013-07-04T00:00:002013-09-30T00:00:00 
  • benthic communities, dredge samples, benthic grab, biodiversity, habitat surveys, marine farming,
NIWA Project Codes
  • PBA13401

Legal constraints

Use limitation
Internally restricted. For further information, a contact email address is given above. 

Text

No information provided.

Security constraints

Text

No information provided.
Classification
Restricted  

Associated resource

Title
Brown, S. (2013). Benthic monitoring survey for marine farms in Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula. NIWA Client Report NEL2013-017. 16 p. 
Association Type
Larger work citation  

Locale

Language
English  

Character encoding

No information provided.
 

Lineage

Lineage

Text

No information provided.

Scope

Hierarchy level
Dataset  
Dataset
Pigeon Bay benthic monitoring data 
 

Ref. system

Reference system

No information provided.
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Reference system identifier
NZST/NZDT

 

Md. constraints

Security constraints

Text

No information provided.
Classification
Restricted  
 

    Overviews

  Provided by

  Share on social sites

         

  Views

Read here the full details and access to the data.

  Associated resources

Not available