Eurimbula declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

• Eurimbula Creek, west of the town of Seventeen Seventy
• Plan number: FHA-038
• Gladstone Regional Council

Size and management level

• 606 ha – Management A.

Declaration history

• 19 November 1983: Original declaration.
• 19 December 2003: Redeclaration:
  • redeclared to cadastral boundaries.

Management features

• Important conservation area of scientific value as an undisturbed standard for comparison.
• Reservoir for replenishing locally exploited estuaries such as Round Hill Creek.

Habitat values

• Extensive mangrove forests of (Avicennia, Aegiceras, Osbornia, Rhizophora and Ceriops)
• Some patches of saltmarsh and claypan
• Sandy beaches
• Intertidal flats.

Fisheries values

• Recreational and Indigenous fishing within the area.
• Important mud crab and commercial fish habitat nursery.
• Species:
  • Barramundi
  • Blue salmon
  • Bream
  • Estuary cod
  • Flathead
  • Grey mackerel
  • Grunter
  • Jewfish
  • King salmon
  • Mangrove jack
  • Queenfish
  • Sea mullet
  • School mackerel
  • Whiting
  • Banana prawns
  • Mud crabs.

Unique features

• One of only 2 estuaries where the white-flowered black mangrove (Lumnitzera racemosa) is locally common.
• Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Other values

• None presently identified.