Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan 21 August 2008 9.6 Anticipated Environmental Results Implementation of the policies and methods relating to the coastal marine issues will result in: • Appropriate activities able to be undertaken within the coastal marine area; • Efficient use being made of the coastal marine area; • The recreational values of the coastal marine area maintained and enhanced; • The adverse effects of occupation of coastal space avoided, remedied or mitigated to the fullest extent practicable; • Conflicts between different activities in the coastal marine area being minimised to the fullest extent practicable; • Only appropriate structures which are sensitive to the coastal environment being constructed; • The avoidance of a proliferation of structures; • A progressive improvement in water quality in areas which are presently degraded; • The maintenance of water quality in the coastal marine area at a level which enables the gathering or cultivating of shellfish for human consumption; • The adverse effects of alterations to the foreshore and seabed being avoided, remedied or mitigated; and • The continuation of activities which do not significantly or adversely alter the foreshore or seabed. 9 - 26