Half Moon Creek declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

• Half Moon Creek, 12 km north to north-west of Cairns
• Plan number: FHA-033
• Cairns Regional Council

Size and management level

• 216 ha Management B

Declaration history

• 14 March 1974:
  • original declaration
• 18 January 1992 redeclaration:
  • exclude a small area
• 20 September 2001 redeclaration:
  • redeclared to cadastral boundaries

Management features

• Estuarine and wetlands buffer zone between urban subdivisions, farmlands, and beachfront
• Significant contribution to local ecology and fisheries production

Habitat values

• Extensive stands of mangroves along the creek
• Saltmarsh
• Sand flats
• Small bar zone

Fisheries values

• Recreational and Indigenous fishing
• Species:
  • Barramundi
  • Blue salmon
  • Bream
  • Estuary cod
  • Grunter
  • Mangrove jack
  • Queenfish
  • Whiting
  • Tiger prawns

Other values

• Adjacent freshwater wetlands