Science

Monitoring for the 2019 report card included an updated fish barrier indicator to better reflect the current health of our region’s estuaries. Using a combination of aerial imagery and field [...]

The story of water begins on land. Waterway pressures come from pollutants entering from both human and natural activity. This conceptual model video was designed to show the pressures on the [...]

Recreational fishers right along the Queensland coastline are fortunate to have access to a wide variety of fishing infrastructure such as jetties and platforms to wet a line. Many of these [...]

5 February 2020 Tourism operators in the Whitsundays have begun collecting data in a citizen science project to keep track of the water quality in their area. The Whitsunday Water Quality [...]

– Ricci Churchill, DBCT Have you ever seen the “Dugong Sanctuary” signs on the Bruce Highway near Clairview and wondered what they mean? In 1997, the Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council [...]

Mackay Whitsunday Isaac Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership founding member, Mackay Regional Council is working hard to deliver fishways that help maintain fish stocks in the region’s waterways. [...]

“Thanks to funding from Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, we finally have a baseline of the condition of water quality, coral reefs and seagrass meadows in the southern inshore reporting area of the [...]

Concerned sugarcane growers around Sandy Creek, south-west of Mackay, initiated water quality monitoring after some pesticide concentrations were found to be higher than the concentration of [...]

Advancements in our understanding of the impacts of pesticides on aquatic species mean that scores for contaminants are expected to worsen in our freshwater basins and estuaries. Improvements in [...]

The report provides advice on the best approach to meeting the Queensland Government’s ambitious reef water quality targets (to reduce nitrogen run-off by up to 80 per cent and sediment run-off [...]