Aquatic Habitat Rehabilitation Program
The Tide to Table Program is a seafood industry initiative that aims to help integrate the country's seafood sector into the regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) model. This involves working with land and sea based primary industry, Landcare and land mangers to undertake on-ground works to improve fish habitat and water quality, that in turn support and build productive sustainable seafood resources and marine life.
These on ground works include the creation of in-stream habitat, the restoration of riparian buffer zones, sediment and erosion control works, improvements to habitat connectivity and the rehabilitation of river/bay/estuarine and wetland areas.
Project work with funding can only ever work on 1 component of better environmental outcomes so for wider changes to behaviour and practices an education component strives to highlight the importance of land management activities in the catchment that impact on estuarine wetlands and water quality and have a flow on effect to the productivity of the seafood industry.
That is, without important healthy connective aquatic habitats of saltmarsh, mangroves and seagrass, there will be no fish! And without good water quality within shellfish harvest zones aquaculture can’t supply oysters, mussels, scallops and other shellfish.
The Tide to Table Program has been operating across 5 NRM regions of Australia funded by National Landcare Program, Natural Heritage Trust, State and Local Governments and Industry.
Click the links below to see what is happening in each region:
NSW Regions:
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Queensland Regions:
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For more information on Tide to Table please contact Simon Rowe (61) 2 9660 2262
Download fact sheet on Tide to Table - Restoring Fish Habitat flyer [776kb]
Many of the coastal vegetation communities relevant to healthy fish habitat are also have Endangered Ecological Community Status in NSW
for more info see Coastal Floodplain EECs... NEW
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