2024 Review of the Maintenance Dredging Strategy for Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Ports
In this document
- Executive summary
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Maintenance dredging in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
- Policy context for the review
- Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan
- Maintenance Dredging Strategy for Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Ports
- Assessment of the Maintenance Dredging Strategy’s effectiveness
- Review process and scope
- Long-term Maintenance Dredging Management Plans
- Developing the knowledge base for maintenance dredging activities
- Avoiding or minimising the need for maintenance dredging
- Volume limits
- Dredged material management
- Comparative analysis
- Dredging equipment and operational approaches
- Environmental windows
- Cumulative impacts, offsetting impacts and providing net benefits
- Monitoring
- Scientific assessments and research projects at Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area ports
- Adaptive management
- Reporting
- Recommendations
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- 8 April 2025