Estuarine Health in Tasmania, status and indicators: water quality

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

Conducted under the Coast and Clean Seas program of the Natural Heritage Trust fund, this study provides a summary and assessment of water quality parameters, as indicators of estuarine health, in 22 selected Tasmanian estuaries. The estuaries are: Duck Bay, East Inlet, Black River, Don River, Mersey River, Port Sorell, Boobyalla Inlet, Little Musselroe River, Ansons Bay, Grants Lagoon, Douglas River, Great Swanport, Meredith River, Little Swanport, Earlham Lagoon, Browns River, Cloudy Bay Lagoon, Catamaran River, Cockle Creek, Pieman River, Nelson Bay River and Arthur River (for location, see Fig. 1 in the attached report). Information is summarised on both a State wide and individual estuary basis.

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Field Value
Title Estuarine Health in Tasmania, status and indicators: water quality
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9fed1683-4e65-4d21-9e71-9342e9f97447
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Christine.Crawford@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 01/04/1999 - 01/06/2000
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Estuarine Health in Tasmania, status and indicators: water quality". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/estuarine-health-in-tasmania-status-and-indicators-water-quality