A Coastal Management Program (CMP) sets out the long-term strategy for the coordinated management of the coastal and estuarine zone. This program will help us identify, understand, prepare for and respond to the current and emerging risk impacting estuarine environments.

Our estuaries are facing a range of different issues including, climate change, lack of community stewardship, agricultural impacts, aquaculture and commercial fishing, loss of coastal wetlands, changes to estuary entrances, impacts to human health, flooding and inundation, recreational impacts, threats to biodiversity and habitat, land use planning, erosion and sediment control and stormwater and litter.

Check out the booklet below to find out the main issues our estuaries face and what we are already doing to manage them.

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If you are having trouble viewing the document in the interactive PDF viewer, you may also download the summary of issues booklet.

This project is supported by the NSW Government through its Coast and Estuary Program.