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  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

 
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King Salmon Limited AND Cawthron Institute

 

Cawthron Institute - Nigel Keeley  
98 Halifax Street East Nelson 7010 New Zealand

  +64 3 548 2319  
  +64 3 546 9464 
Website
Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute  

Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute

Keywords
  • marine coastal benthic soft chemistry water column physical ecological visual observation grab photograph
Specific usage
MEMP

 

 
Use limitation
Monitoring reports are publically available from council.
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
Description
Queen Charlotte Sound (Ruakaka, Te Pangu, Clay Point, Otanerau) and Pelorus Sound (Forsyth Bay, Waihinau)
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661a4913-78f1-4723-bdf5-781ba1f7ae83   XML
Date stamp
2012-08-10T08:53:19
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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