Wildfish 2030: Benthic Monitoring Survey - Nelson Haven
Plant and Food Research engaged NIWA to design and implement a survey programme to monitor the effects of an experimental fish feeding operation on the benthic environment in Nelson Haven, to satisfy resource consent requirements. This was conducted to assess whether the feeding programme would adversely affect the local benthic environment, the survey focussed on measuring key indicators of organic enrichment. To do this, a range of sediment physicochemical parameters were characterised using benthic cores and sledding methods. Parameters included: sediment grain size, sediment organic content, sediment colour and smell, and redox potential of surficial sediment,and also biotic features including: the composition of animal communities living upon and within the sediments, and the distribution and abundance of macroalgae. This report describes the survey undertaken 8 months after the commencement of the fish feeding activity.
Benthic and sediment data from 7 sites have been processed, checked, analysed, and summarised in the client report.
Previous reports in this time series are:
Brown, S. N. (2014a). Wildfish 2030: Benthic Monitoring Baseline Survey. Report prepared for
Plant and Food Research Ltd. NIWA Client Report No. NEL2014-013. 18 p.
Brown, S. N. (2014b). Wildfish 2030: Benthic Monitoring Survey – First post baseline survey.
Report prepared for Plant and Food Research Ltd. NIWA Client Report No. NEL2014-021.18 p.
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2015-07-02T21:47:00
- Date ( Revision )
- 2015-07-02T21:47:00
- Purpose
- This report compares the 2015 results with those obtained in the Baseline Survey (undertaken in 2014) to assess changes in the estuarine benthos spatially and temporally following an experimental fish feeding operation in Nelson Haven.
- Credit
- Dr. Sean Handley (NIWA). Funding was from Plant and Food Research Ltd.
- Status
- Completed
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- Vector
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Farming
- Health
- Description
- Nelson Region
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- TimePeriod
- 2015-02-182015-02-19
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- benthic communities, finfish, sediment analysis, geological core, radox, environmental impact, sled
- NIWA Project Codes
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- PFR14401
- Use limitation
- Confidential client data. Further information can be accessed through the point-of-contact details above. All methods are given in the report cited above.
- Classification
- Restricted
- Title
- Handley, S. (2015). Wildfish 2030: Benthic Monitoring Survey - second post-baseline survey (6 months). NIWA Client Report No. NEL2015-004. 25 p.
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- Larger work citation
- Language
- English
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- d65595df-35ae-6535-a8f5-9a5733e57215
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- English
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NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
301 Evans Bay Parade
Hataitai
Wellington
6021
New Zealand
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Date info ( Creation )
- 2015-09-17T11:31:42
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
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