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Draft Amendment No. 5 to the Tasman Peninsula and Norfolk Bay Marine Farming Development Plan November 2005 Draft Amendment No. 5 to the Tasman Peninsula and Norfolk Bay Marine Farming Development Plan November 2005 Report of the Marine Farming Planning Review Panel August 2018 i Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 Purpose of Report .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Structure of Report ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Background ........................................................................................................................................................... 1 Legislative Changes – Finfish Farming Environmental Regulation Act 2017 ................................................ 2 Role of the Marine Farming Planning Review Panel .................................................................................... 3 Context ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 2 Requirements of the Act ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Sections 21 and 22 of the Marine Farming Planning Act 1995 ................................................................. 5 Resource Management Objectives ................................................................................................................. 6 2.2.1 Promote Sustainable Development ........................................................................................................ 7 2.2.2 Provide for Fair and Orderly Development ......................................................................................... 7 2.2.3 Encourage Public Involvement in Resource Management and Planning and take account of the community’s right to have an interest ............................................................................................................. 8 2.2.4 Facilitate Economic Development ........................................................................................................... 8 2.2.5 Promote sharing of responsibility for Resource Management and Planning ................................. 8 2.2.6 Integrate marine farming activities with other marine uses .............................................................. 9 Use and development of the region as an entity ......................................................................................... 9 Coordinated approach with the Marine and Safety Authority or Council ........................................... 9 3 Key Issues ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 Issues relating to the proposed amendment description ....................................................................... 10 3.1.1 Infrastructure and servicing ................................................................................................................... 10 3.1.2 Stock husbandry aspects ........................................................................................................................ 12 Impacts on the Natural Environment .......................................................................................................... 14 3.2.1 Water Quality ........................................................................................................................................... 14 3.2.2 Substrates and fauna ................................................................................................................................ 18 3.2.3 Marine Vegetation .................................................................................................................................... 21 3.2.4 Birds ............................................................................................................................................................ 23 3.2.5 Marine mammals ...................................................................................................................................... 24 3.2.6 Threatened species .................................................................................................................................. 26 3.2.7 Chemicals ................................................................................................................................................... 27 3.2.8 Disease and Biosecurity .......................................................................................................................... 28 ii 3.2.9 Introduced marine pests......................................................................................................................... 31 3.2.10 Climate change ....................................................................................................................................... 32 3.2.11 Environmental management ................................................................................................................ 32 Impacts on the Human Environment .......................................................................................................... 35 3.3.1 Visual ........................................................................................................................................................... 35 3.3.2 Navigation .................................................................................................................................................. 36 3.3.3 Reservations .............................................................................................................................................. 38 3.3.4 Noise ........................................................................................................................................................... 39 3.3.5 Odour ......................................................................................................................................................... 40 3.3.6 Commercial fishing .................................................................................................................................. 40 3.3.7 Recreational fishing .................................................................................................................................. 43 3.3.8 Recreational activities ............................................................................................................................. 44 3.3.9 Tourism ...................................................................................................................................................... 45 3.3.10 Land use and development .................................................................................................................. 46 3.3.11 Socio-economic aspects ....................................................................................................................... 47 Other matters................................................................................................................................................... 48 3.4.1 Marine farming planning process .......................................................................................................... 48 3.4.2 Holistic impact assessment .................................................................................................................... 49 3.4.3 Application of the Precautionary Principle ........................................................................................ 51 3.4.4 Moratorium ............................................................................................................................................... 53 3.4.5 Stakeholder consultation ........................................................................................................................ 54 3.4.6 Zone/ Lease size and location ............................................................................................................... 55 3.4.7 Tasmanian Brand ...................................................................................................................................... 56 3.4.8 Additional recommendations of the Planning Authority ................................................................ 56 4 Conclusions and recommendations ................................................................................................................. 57 Conclusions ....................................................................................................................................................... 57 Principal Recommendation ............................................................................................................................ 57 Additional Recommendations ....................................................................................................................... 57 4.3.1 Environmental Monitoring ..................................................................................................................... 57 4.3.2 Rate of Development .............................................................................................................................
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