Report
Artificial Reefs: Suitability of recycled materials for integration into purpose built artificial reefs for enhancing marine productivity, biodiversity and social outcomes
FRDC Final Report: Design Standard
FRDC Project, 2021-055, Fisheries Research & Development Corporation
2025
Abstract
Artificial reefs are human-made or altered structures placed in an aquatic environment to mimic certain characteristics of a natural reef. Indigenous cultures have used artificial reefs to harvest aquatic food supplies for thousands of years, including indigenous Australians using artificial reefs as far back as 2,000 BC (Carstairs, 1988; Kerr, 1992). These early reefs were mainly constructed using materials of opportunity such as woody debris including bamboo, rocks and rubble and sunken vessels (such as ancient fishing boats). In more recent history, artificial reefs have advanced significantly, with innovations in design, materials, and purpose (such as coastal protection, tourism and fisheries enhancement). As of 2015, at least 120 artificial reefs had been deployed in Australian waters, with 11 noted in Western Australia (Bateman et al, 2015); however, the number is likely above 7,000 when considering there are more than 1,600 shipwrecks along the coast, jetties, ports and coastal infrastructure, subsea petroleum assets and other artificial reefs...
Details
- Title
- Artificial Reefs: Suitability of recycled materials for integration into purpose built artificial reefs for enhancing marine productivity, biodiversity and social outcomes
- Authors/Creators
- Danielle HartshornJames FlorissonAndrew J. RowlandSander ScheffersJames TweedleyEligh QuigleyKim de VriesDominic Holland
- Publication Details
- FRDC Final Report: Design Standard
- Series
- FRDC Project; 2021-055
- Publisher
- Fisheries Research & Development Corporation
- Identifiers
- 991005812149207891
- Copyright
- © Year Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences; Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report
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