Reimagining Aquaculture – Trials of Novel Aquaculture Structures Project
This project has been referred to an expert consenting panel for fast-track consenting under the Covid-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting Act 2020).
Project ID
2023-153
Applicant
The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Project summary
To install structures for open-ocean finfish aquaculture and conduct trials involving fish contained within those structures at several locations within the boundary of a consented 450-hectare marine farm operated by Wakatū Incorporation. Each set of structures will temporarily occupy an area of approximately 3.6 hectares, and only one set of structures will be installed at any one time.
Location
Tasman Bay, approximately 6 kilometres to the west of Sauvage Point, D’Urville Island.
Referred projects order
Schedule 102 to the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects Order 2020 [New Zealand Legislation website]
The project will:
- provide approximately 42 direct full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs over a 5-year period and support retention of 60 existing FTE jobs
- contribute to aquaculture production that is climate change resilient through innovative technology
- progress faster than would otherwise be the case under standard Resource Management Act 1991 process.
Any actual and potential effects on the environment, and proposed measures to avoid, remedy, mitigate, offset, or compensate for any adverse effects, can be appropriately tested by an expert consenting panel against Part 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and the purpose of the Act.
Section 17 report
Section 17 report [PDF, 1.5 MB]