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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Citation proposal
. King Salmon Annual Monitoring. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/661a4913-78f1-4723-bdf5-781ba1f7ae83 |
Simple
- Date
- Credit
- King Salmon Limited AND Cawthron Institute
- Website
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Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute
Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute
- Keywords
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- 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
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- Oceans
- Description
- Queen Charlotte Sound (Ruakaka, Te Pangu, Clay Point, Otanerau) and Pelorus Sound (Forsyth Bay, Waihinau)
- OnLine resource
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 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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