Residents told to collect seaweed

Council has advised petitioners on St Huberts Island that its maintenance program does not include the collection of litter or seagrass from the shoreline, following a complaint from residents over seagrass at Shelter Cove.

Council instead advised the petitioners to collect the litter from the shoreline themselves and encouraged them to "continue this practice".

It also advised the petitioners that it was permissible to collect up to 20kg of dead seaweed or seagrass per person per day without the requirement of a NSW Fisheries permit.

The petitioners had sent a petition to council on June 27 asking it to contact the Fisheries Department to remove the seagrass and ribbon weed from the shoreline of Shelter Cove as it was causing a "rubbish accumulation, which is resulting in a health hazard".

The petition contained eight signatures.

Council agenda P.39, August 22