Huon Estuary Model: Fish Farm Load Scenarios
CASE STUDY REPORT
Following the completion of the Huon Estuary Study,
CSIRO was commissioned by Huon
Aquaculture to use the Huon Estuary
model to investigate how environmental impacts depend on the location
of fish farm loads (both along the estuary, and vertically within the
water column).
A report describing
this study and its findings is available to download.
 Huon
Estuary Fish
Farm Load Scenarios
[PDF 232 Kb]
As part of the Huon Estuary Study (HES), CSIRO developed a simple model
of transport, nutrient cycling and algal blooms in the Huon Estuary. This
model included loads from the catchment, the marine boundary and from
salmon farm operations based on tons of feed in calendar year 1997.
The
HES Final Report includes a set of model scenarios which examine the effect
of increases in salmon farm loads on predicted levels of nutrient and
chlorophyll in the Estuary. These scenarios were not designed as realistic
management scenarios, and salmon farm loads are simply scaled uniformly
by factors of 2, 4 and 10, regardless of location in the estuary.
Updated:
12/11/08
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See
also Huon Estuary Study: Final Technical Report - Environmental
Research for Integrated Catchment Management and Aquaculture
