Deception Bay declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

  • Caboolture River and foreshore south to Deception Bay
  • Plan number: FHA-013 (Revision 3)
  • City of Moreton Bay

Size and management level

Total size: 1,490.04 ha:

  • 1,488.46 ha – Management A
  • 1.58 ha – Management B.

Declaration history

  • 23 January 1969: Original declaration
  • 24 July 1998: Redeclaration:
    • to cadastral boundaries.
  • 11 November 2011: Revision:
    • to add adjoining fish habitats.
  • 21 December 2012: Revision:
    • to allow essential public infrastructure.
  • 17 March 2017: Redeclaration:
    • an area at Cundoot Creek to Management B to allow road bridge construction to meet Planning and Environment Court and road safety requirements.

Management features

  • Estuarine and bay habitats supporting commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries in close proximity to developed areas.

Habitat values

  • Shoreline mangrove woodlands (dominated by Avicennia) with sandy-mud foreshores adjacent to tidal flats
  • Creek beds dominated by mangroves (Avicennia and Aegiceras)
  • Saltmarsh (Samphire) flats around the mouths of the Caboolture River and Burpengary Creek
  • Extensive sand and mud intertidal flats
  • Seasonal seagrass beds.

Fisheries values

  • Important juvenile finfish and crustacean area.
  • Local recreational crab fishery.
  • Species:
    • Australian bass
    • Bream
    • Blue salmon
    • Estuary cod
    • Flathead
    • Garfish
    • Jewfish
    • Luderick
    • Mangrove jack
    • Sea mullet
    • Tailor
    • Whiting
    • Mud and Sand crabs
    • Banana prawns
    • School prawns
    • Greasyback prawns
    • Bay prawns.

Unique features

  • Lies within the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland.

Other values

  • None presently identified.