Colosseum Inlet declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

  • Colosseum Inlet or Seven Mile Creek area, 20km south of Gladstone
  • Plan number: FHA-037
  • Gladstone Regional Council

Size and management level

Total size: 11,816 ha:

  • 9,886 ha – Management A
  • 1,930 ha – Management B.

Declaration history

  • 19 November 1983: Original declaration.
  • 19 December 2003: Redeclaration:
    • redeclared to cadastral boundaries
    • combine Innes, Colosseum, Wild Cattle and Boyne Creek Fish Habitat Areas.

Management features

  • Important fish and juvenile prawn habitats.

Habitat values

  • Extensive mangroves (Avicennia, Excoecaria, Rhizophora, Ceriops and Aegialitis)
  • Bar zone
  • Island-banks
  • Silty sand
  • Channels
  • Deltaic islands
  • Saltmarsh (Samphire) and clay pan
  • Small coral community
  • Seagrass beds towards Tannum Sands.

Fisheries values

  • Important commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries.
  • Species:
    • Barramundi
    • Blue salmon
    • Bream
    • Estuary cod
    • Flathead
    • Grey mackerel
    • Grunter
    • Jewfish
    • King salmon
    • Mangrove jack
    • Queenfish
    • Sea mullet
    • School mackerel
    • Whiting
    • Banana prawns
    • Endeavour prawns
    • King prawns
    • Mud crabs.

Unique features

  • Lies within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
  • Partially within the Rodds Bay Dugong Protection Area.

Other values

  • None presently identified.