Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Corio Bay
Mangrove-lined channel, Corio Bay declared Fish Habitat Area
Location
Corio Bay, 20km north of Yeppoon.
Plan number
Size
4,652 ha
Management level
A
Declaration dates
16 March 1974 (original declaration)
22 May 2009 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries and to include adjoining fish habitats)
Local government
Livingstone Shire Council
Management features
Protection of habitats which support local recreational fisheries and banana prawns.
Habitat values
Extensive sandy shallows with areas of mangrove shrubland dominated by Rhizophora and Ceriops species; rocky outcrops; seagrass beds on intertidal flats and extensive saltmarshes around Fishing Creek.
Fisheries values
Locally important recreational fishery, also Indigenous and commercial fishing; barramundi; blue salmon; bream; estuary cod; flathead; grunter; grey mackerel; jewfish; mangrove jack; queenfish; sea mullet; school mackerel; whiting; banana prawns; freshwater eels.
Unique features
Lies within the Shoalwater and Corio Bay Area Ramsar wetland, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Shoalwater Bay Dugong Protection Area and is surrounded by national parks.
Other values
None presently identified.
Further references
Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation 2011, Inventory of Instream Structures Impacting on Ramsar Wetlands, 66 pp, Queensland Wetlands Program, Brisbane Queensland.