The Health of the Aquatic Environment in the Darwin Harbour Region

Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).The health of the aquatic environment in the Darwin Harbour region (Map 1.1) is assessed in this report based on monitoring undertaken by the Natural Resource Management Division of the Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts. The objective of the monitoring is to provide an overview of the aquatic environment's health.Introduction -- Catchment description -- Freshwater aquatic environments -- Condition of riparian (stream-side) land -- River flows -- Stream water quality -- The amount of sediment, nutrients and metals that enter the harbour each year -- Pesticides -- Aquatic weeds in the Darwin Harbour Region -- Stream macroalgae -- Stream diatoms -- Stream macroinvertebrates -- Freshwater fish -- freshwater lagoons -- Darwin Harbour water quality -- Collaborative monitoring and research with the Australian Institute of Marine Science -- Mangrove