Half Moon Creek declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

• Half Moon Creek, 12km 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.