Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Burrum

Location

Burrum River and tributaries including coastal foreshore outside river mouth, 40km north-west of Maryborough.

Plan number

FHA-029 Revision 1 (PDF, 1.3MB) (Revision 2)

Size

4,432 ha
3,374 ha management A
1,058 ha management B

Management level

A and B

Declaration dates

10 May 1986 (original declarations)

19 December 2003 (redeclared, combining Burrum-Isis, Gregory, Cherwell-Burrum, and northern part of Burrum-Toogoom FHAs)

11 December 2015 (redeclared to revoke 2.2 hectare area at Burrum Heads for a new public boat ramp)

29 March 2024 (effective from 21 May 2024) (redeclared - revised to exclude some areas of non-tidal land and the areas within 30 meters of the public boat ramps /boating infrastructure along the Burrum Heads foreshore. Slight modification to the boundary of the exclusion areas at Buxton and Walkers Point and the upstream limit of the FHA in the Gregory River, to align with the outer boundary and zone boundaries of the Great Sandy Marine Park.)

Local government

Bundaberg Regional Council and Fraser Coast Regional Council

Management features

Management B areas form wetlands buffer zone from regional and rural development for the management A areas; protection of Burrum, Cherwell, Gregory and Isis River fish habitats.

Habitat values

Closed mangrove forests (Avicennia, Aegialitis, Rhizophora and Avicennia with patches of low Ceriops); saltmarsh and seagrass areas; intertidal sand flat and shallow littoral areas.

Fisheries values

Conservation of commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishing grounds; inshore nursery area for fish and crustaceans; barramundi; bream; estuary cod; flathead; garfish; grey mackerel; mangrove jack; sea mullet; school mackerel; tailor; whiting; freshwater eels; luderick; banana and king prawns; mud crabs.

Other values

Dugong feeding grounds.