Long Term Monitoring of Port of Weipa Seagrass (B1.18)

Task leader: Dr Michael Rasheed, Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries.

Task associate: NA.

To conduct annual long-term monitoring of the distribution and abundance of seagrass meadows at the Port of Weipa. The specific objectives of the surveys are to:

1. Map the distribution and abundance of selected seagrass monitoring meadows in the port of Weipa
2. Map the distribution and confirm species composition of seagrass meadows in the Intensive Monitoring Area (IMA) in the Port of Weipa
3. Map the distribution and confirm species composition of all seagrass meadows within the port limits of the Port of Weipa (2005 only)
4. Assess changes in seagrass meadows and compare results with previous monitoring surveys
5. Incorporate the results into the Geographic Information System (GIS) database for the Port of Weipa