reducing the spatial footprint required for anchorage needs of all users to access marine resources seabed biodiversity and sediment conditions the aesthetic vista of coastal communities. Balance is needed to achieve location and management of anchorage areas such that potential impacts to the OUV of the World Heritage Area are avoided while maintaining appropriate port access and vessel safety. The potential opportunities for management of impacts associated with the use of anchorage areas in the World Heritage Area are considered in the next phase of work for this project. The findings from this report will inform that phase in which a CBA will be completed. The CBA will comprise an analysis of the socio-economic costs and benefits of existing anchorage operation and different management scenarios, out to a 25 year planning horizon. Management options analysed in that phase of work will consider the impacts identified in this assessment to ascertain applicability of different management strategies at ameliorating identified impacts for each of the different port geographies under predicted future trade volumes. Information from both this report and the yet to be completed CBA will inform development of potential management strategies for the anchorages under consideration. Identified management strategies will need to be applicable to all of the port anchorages and will underpin ongoing sustainable use of anchorages in the World Heritage Area without putting at risk the values for which that area is recognised.
reducing the spatial footprint required for anchorage needs of all users to access marine resources seabed biodiversity and sediment conditions the aesthetic vista of coastal communities. Balance is needed to achieve location and management of anchorage areas such that potential impacts to the OUV of the World Heritage Area are avoided while maintaining appropriate port access and vessel safety. The potential opportunities for management of impacts associated with the use of anchorage areas in the World Heritage Area are considered in the next phase of work for this project. The findings from this report will inform that phase in which a CBA will be completed. The CBA will comprise an analysis of the socio-economic costs and benefits of existing anchorage operation and different management scenarios, out to a 25 year planning horizon. Management options analysed in that phase of work will consider the impacts identified in this assessment to ascertain applicability of different management strategies at ameliorating identified impacts for each of the different port geographies under predicted future trade volumes. Information from both this report and the yet to be completed CBA will inform development of potential management strategies for the anchorages under consideration. Identified management strategies will need to be applicable to all of the port anchorages and will underpin ongoing sustainable use of anchorages in the World Heritage Area without putting at risk the values for which that area is recognised.