Criterion 8 A wetland should be considered internationally important if it is an important source of food for fishes, spawning ground, nursery and/or migration path on which fish stocks, either within the wetland or elsewhere, depend. Corner Inlet provides important habitats, feeding areas, dispersal and migratory pathways, and spawning sites for numerous fish species of direct and indirect fisheries significance. These fish have important fisheries resource values both within and external to the site. BMT WBM (2011) identifies the key species for which the site meets this criterion. Critical components, processes and services The Corner Inlet ECD identified two components, a process and two services that are critical to the ecological character of the Ramsar site. Detailed descriptions of these critical CPS can be found in that ECD : Marine and estuarine wetland habitats ECD section 3.3.1: – Marine subtidal aquatic beds. seagrass Permanent shallow marine waters without seagrass Intertidal and shallow subtidal sand or mud flats. intertidal Intertidal and fringing forested wetlands. mangrove forest. saltmarsh. Abundance and diversity of waterbirds ECD section 3.3.2. – Waterbird breeding ECD section 3.5.1. – Presence of threatened species ECD section 3.7.1 (see update below). – Fisheries resource values ECD section 3.7.2. – Changes to the listed threatened species under the EPBC Act, have resulted in an update of the critical service: of threatened species” which is described below. In addition, a “presence review of evidence for two species (growling grass frog and orange-bellied parrot) as being critical has concluded these species are not critical services for the Ramsar site as outlined in Section 3.1. Changes to existing critical CPS of threatened species” “presence Recent additions to the list of threatened species in Australia and more comprehensive migratory bird data have resulted in the following bird species being added to the critical service of threatened species” in addition to the Australian fairy tern and Australian “presence grayling. Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) - Vulnerable Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) Critically endangered – Eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) Critically endangered – Great knot (Calidris tenuirostris) Critically endangered –
Criterion 8 A wetland should be considered internationally important if it is an important source of food for fishes, spawning ground, nursery and/or migration path on which fish stocks, either within the wetland or elsewhere, depend. Corner Inlet provides important habitats, feeding areas, dispersal and migratory pathways, and spawning sites for numerous fish species of direct and indirect fisheries significance. These fish have important fisheries resource values both within and external to the site. BMT WBM (2011) identifies the key species for which the site meets this criterion. Critical components, processes and services The Corner Inlet ECD identified two components, a process and two services that are critical to the ecological character of the Ramsar site. Detailed descriptions of these critical CPS can be found in that ECD : Marine and estuarine wetland habitats – ECD section 3.3.1: Marine subtidal aquatic beds. seagrass Permanent shallow marine waters without seagrass Intertidal and shallow subtidal sand or mud flats. intertidal Intertidal and fringing forested wetlands. mangrove forest. saltmarsh. Abundance and diversity of waterbirds – ECD section 3.3.2. Waterbird breeding – ECD section 3.5.1. Presence of threatened species – ECD section 3.7.1 (see update below). Fisheries resource values – ECD section 3.7.2. Changes to the listed threatened species under the EPBC Act, have resulted in an update of the critical service: “presence of threatened species” which is described below. In addition, a review of evidence for two species (growling grass frog and orange-bellied parrot) as being critical has concluded these species are not critical services for the Ramsar site as outlined in Section 3.1. Changes to existing critical CPS “presence of threatened species” Recent additions to the list of threatened species in Australia and more comprehensive migratory bird data have resulted in the following bird species being added to the critical service “presence of threatened species” in addition to the Australian fairy tern and Australian grayling. Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) - Vulnerable Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) – Critically endangered Eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) – Critically endangered Great knot (Calidris tenuirostris) – Critically endangered
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