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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Coordinate water quality and environmental monitoring programs
   • Confirm strategies for meeting legislative and environmental obligations and allocations of resources with senior personnel
   • Select water quality variables and environmental criteria to be monitored
   • Prepare and brief staff on monitoring schedules
   • Develop monitoring systems to ensure that quality of water supply system meets requirements of cultured or held stock
2. Develop effluent and waste treatment and disposal programs
   • Determine environmental risks and develop effluent and waste treatment and disposal programs to minimise emissions and discharges according to legislative requirements
   • Investigate opportunities to minimise energy and waste and utilise recycling
   • Evaluate options for on-site or off-site disposal of wastes against environmental management plan
   • Minimise adverse environmental impacts due to effluent and waste treatments and disposal
3. Manage resource use for facility
   • Develop water quality management strategies to minimise water and energy use
   • Develop stock production strategies to efficiently use water supply
   • Manage farm effluent to optimise its re-use opportunities
4. Finalise and review environmental protection activities
   • Record relevant environmental protection data, observations or information, and check any out-of-range or unusual records
   • Prepare compliance and other required reports of the effectiveness of environmental protection and provide to senior personnel, including recommendations for improvements
   • Give feedback to staff on their work performance
   • Investigate opportunities to improve sustainable aquaculture operations and submit to senior personnel