An onboard monitoring program has revealed an extremely low number of interactions between seabirds and NSW commercial line fishing operations.

As global temperatures rise due to climate change, NSW is emerging as a refuge for marine turtles. That’s why collaborations like NSW Turtle Summit are so important.

NSW DPIRD and Jali LALC have been working together to deliver a Blue Carbon Demonstration project at the Duck Creek Farm which aims to transform a 13 ha grazing paddock back to mangrove and saltmarsh ecosystem to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).

Recent findings by Marine Estate Management Strategy climate change scientists have revealed that over 3.5 billion kelp plants are growing on NSW reefs. Measurements show that each kelp grows approximately 25cm per year and produces around 0.5 kg of biomass.

Farm sustainability, social license, profitable production and cleaner waterways were the key topics at the Clean Coastal Catchments (CCC) Macadamia Research Update held in Alstonville on the NSW north coast in June.