Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan Map Site Status Ecological Value Key 1/21 East Bay (Onauku Bay), 3 Horse mussel beds provide substrata for a Queen Charlotte Sound range of species. Presence of brachiopod Neothyrus lenticularis . Horse mussels vulnerable to dredging. 1/22 Pattens Passage, 2 Hector’s dolphin (vulnerable) rare in Queen Charlotte Sound Sounds. 1/22 East Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound 2 As above 1/22 Blumine Island Water, 2 As above Queen Charlotte Sound 1/22 Resolution Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound 2 Hector’s dolphin (vulnerable) rare in sounds. 1/23 Whatamongo Bay, 2 Reef heron (threatened) . Intertidal Queen Charlotte Sound wetland habitats. Caspian tern (vulnerable) also gulls, shags and water fowl. Representative estuarine areas of southern side of Queen Charlotte Sound. 1/23 Ahuriri Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound 2 As above 1/24 Wedge Point, Queen Charlotte Sound 1 New Zealand’s largest brachiopod (international scientific interest) in unusually shallow waters. 1/24 East Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound 1 As above 1/24 Hou Hou Point, Queen Charlotte sound 1 As above 1/24 Pihaka Point, Queen Charlotte Sound 1 As above 1/25 Ngakuta Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound 2 Valuable wildlife habitat . Caspian tern, reef heron (nationally vulnerable). Duck, South Island pied oyster-catcher and black-backed gulls (important non-breeding season area). 1/26 Okiwa Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound 2 Very large tidal wetland for Sounds. Habitat for white heron (endangered aand, ) inNewZel caspian tern, reef heron, banded rail (vulnerable) and waterfowl. Swamp maire (uncommon tree). Algae and cockle beds present in subtidal areas. 1/27 Arapawa Island Outer Coast 2 High degree of natural character. Rocky reefs, boulder beds, macroalgal beds unlike elsewhere in Sounds. Seascape (steep coastal cliffs with regenerating forest). 1/28 The Knobbys, Port Underwood 2 The Knobbys Reef (600 m in length). Tube worms (large healthy colonies). 1/28 Whataroa Bay 2 Southern headland of Bay. Very large tube worm colonies. 1/29 Hallam Cove (Burnside Bay), 1 Sponge community (undisturbed, not Pelorus Sound recorded elsewhere in Sounds, three sponges may be new species). 1/34 Cloudy Bay 2 Hectors dolphin (nationally large population). 1/37 Gannet point, Port Gore 2 Unique subtidal communities on unusual subtidal landform. App B - 4