King Salmon Annual Monitoring

Environmental monitoring and reporting in accordance with resource consents for salmon farming.

Temporal coverage: 2011 (on-going)

Number of sites: 6 salmon farms, 5-10 stations per farm in Queen Charlotte Sound (Ruakaka, Te Pangu, Clay Point, Otanerau) and Pelorus Sound (Forsyth Bay, Waihinau)

Sampling Frequency: Annual

Main marine environment sampled: Coastal (Sounds)

Depth zone: Subtidal

Sediment type: Soft

Community association: Mud

Sampling method: Grab samples, drop cameras, Van Dorn sampler, field observations

Parameters collected: Sediment, water, in-fauna, bacterial

Measured variables: Sediment: total free sulphides, redox potential, particle size, organic content, odour, metal concentrations (Cu, Zn), sediment outgassing; Community: in-fauna abundance and diversity; Bacterial mat coverage; Water column: near-bottom dissolved oxygen, nutrients (nitrate-N, nitrite-N, ammoniacal-N and dissolved reactive phosphorous)

Species/Community data: Benthic invertebrates

Other data collected: Rocky reef monitoring is also carried out for Te Pangu and Clay Point

Collection: ongoing

Quality assurance: Yes

 
Citation proposal
. King Salmon Annual Monitoring. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/661a4913-78f1-4723-bdf5-781ba1f7ae83
 

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661a4913-78f1-4723-bdf5-781ba1f7ae83   XML
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL
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Metadata language
eng
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  • Oceans
 

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Coupled resource
 
 

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Coupled resource
 
 

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  • marine coastal benthic soft chemistry water column physical ecological visual observation grab photograph
 
 

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Conformity
 

Conformity

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Restrictions on access and use

Use limitation
Monitoring reports are publically available from council.
 

Restrictions on access and use

 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Cawthron Institute
Email
[email protected]
 

Responsible organization (s)

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Organisation name
Cawthron Institute
Email
[email protected]
 

Metadata information

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Organisation name
NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Email
[email protected]
Date stamp
2012-08-10T08:53:19
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UTF8
 
 

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Conformance class 1: invocable

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Quality of Service
 
Access constraints
Limitation
 
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Limitation
 
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Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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