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Manly Lagoon Dredging Project – Review of Environmental FactorsPrepared for Manly and Warringah CouncilsTable 5.7: Fish and Mobile Invertebrates (Prawns and Crabs) Caught in Manly Lagoon by The EcologyLab^Genus Species Common Name2 July 2010 Cardno (NSW/ACT) Pty Ltd 80H:\Doc\2010\Reports.2010\Rep2580v4.docJan93'Mar01'Month SampledFishAcanthaluteres sp. Leatherjacket* Acanthopagrus australis Yellowfin bream* Ambassis jacksoniensisPort Jacksonperchlet Ambassis marinanus Estuary perchlet Angiulla reinhardtii Long-finned eel* Arenigobius bifrenatus Bridled goby Arenigobius frenatus Half-bridled goby Arothron hispidus Stars and stripes toadfish Bathygobius krefftii Kreft's goby Centropogon australis Fortesque Favonigobius exquisites Exquisite goby Favonigobius tamarensis Tamar River goby Gambusia holbrooki Mosquito fish Gerres subfasciatus Silver biddy* Girella tricuspidata Luderick* Gobiopterus semivestita Transparent goby Herklotsicthys castelnaui Southern herring* Heteroclinus sp. Weed fish Hyperlophus vittatus Sandy sprat* Liza argentea Flat-tail mullet* Macquaria colonorum Estuary perch Monodactylus argenteus Silver batfish Mugil cephalus Sea mullet* Myxus elongatus Sand mullet* Pelates sexlineatus Eastern striped trumpeter Philypnodon grandiceps Flathead gudgeon Philypnodon sp.Dwarf flatheadgudgeon Platycephalus fuscus Dusky flathead* Pseudogobius olorum Swan River goby Pseudomugil signifer Pacific blue-eye Pseudorhombus arsius Large-tooth flounder* Pseudorhombus jenynsii Small-tooth flounder Redigobius macrostoma Large-mouth goby Rhabdosargus sarba Tarwhine* Scobinichthys granulatus Rough leatherjacket* Sillago ciliata Sand whiting* Synaptura nigra Black sole Terapon jarbua Crescent perch Tetractenos glaber Smooth toadfish Tetractenos hamiltoni Common toadfish CrustaceansScylla serrata Mud crab* (Family: Hymenosomatidae) Spider crab* May01'Oct01'Feb02'
Manly Lagoon Dredging Project – Review of Environmental FactorsPrepared for Manly and Warringah CouncilsMonth SampledGenus Species Common NameJan93'Mar01'May01'Oct01'Feb02'Penaeus plebejus Eastern king prawn* Metapeneaus bennettae Greasyback prawn* Metapeneaus macleayi School prawn* ^ Species recorded include those caught by gill net, beach seine and beam trawl and (*) indicates species ofcommercial or recreational importance.None of the species listed in Table 5.7 are listed under the FM Act 1994 or the EPBC Act1999. One introduced pest species, Gambusia holbrooki (Mosquito Fish) was caught.A total of 45 species of fish and crustaceans have been caught in Manly Lagoon, with amaximum of 34 species in October 2001. The list of species caught includes residents thatspend much of their life cycle within the lagoon (gobies, gudgeons), those that migrateregularly between the sea and freshwater (e.g. mullet) and those that migrate fromfreshwater to the sea as adults to spawn (e.g. eels, estuary perch). The species recordedare all typical of estuarine habitats in NSW and have distributions that range throughoutNSW in appropriate habitats.An additional fish survey is being undertaken by Cardno Ecology Lab during June 2010, andthis will serve as a more recent baseline of abundance and diversity of fish representative ofwinter conditions before dredging. Subsequent surveys are scheduled for the post-dredgingperiod (assuming dredging is completed in the 2010 calendar year).Benthic FaunaA benthic fauna survey was undertaken by Cardno Ecology Lab (2009b; Appendix F) in July2009. Results indicated that the distribution of individual benthic fauna was highly variablewithin Manly Lagoon, with 89% of all individuals found in samples from the upper portion ofthe dredging works near Nolan Reserve. There were no benthic animals in 12 of the 24samples collected and all sites sampled had a low diversity of taxa. The dominant speciesfound were polychaete worms from the families Spionidae and Sabellidae, species typical ofestuaries and not listed as threatened or endangered. The most abundant species foundwas Orthoprionospio cirriformia, a member of the polychaete family Spionidae (CardnoEcology Lab, 2009b). An earlier survey (The Ecology Lab 2002) also found low benthicdiversity in a winter survey (May 2001), with 13 of the 32 samples collected containing nobenthic fauna. In that survey the dominant taxa was a snail in the family Batillaridae,indicating that patchy distribution, shifting species dominance and low overall abundance arelikely to be typical of benthic assemblages in Manly Lagoon in the winter. Overall, theavailable data indicate that benthic communities in the lagoon have deteriorated and arepotentially dysfunctional (Cardno Ecology Lab, 2010).BirdsA terrestrial field survey, conducted by Warringah Council on 4 January 2010, wasundertaken to support this desktop study. The field survey found the birds shown in Table5.8 to be present in the survey area. A number of the birds identified are listed as protected2 July 2010 Cardno (NSW/ACT) Pty Ltd 81H:\Doc\2010\Reports.2010\Rep2580v4.doc
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