Jumpinpin–Broadwater declared Fish Habitat Area
Location and plan number
- Channel between the southern end of South Stradbroke Island and the mainland coast, north to the south-western end of North Stradbroke Island, 20km north of the Gold Coast
- Plan number: FHA-021 (Revision 2)
- City of Gold Coast Council
Size and management level
Total size: 10,403.41 ha:
- 10,332.03 ha – Management A
- 71.38 ha – Management B.
Declaration history
- 23 January 1969: Original declaration of Jumpinpin Reserve.
- 12 June 1971: Original declaration of Tipplers Passage and Currigee Reserves.
- 19 November 1983. Redeclaration:
- merge and extend Jumpinpin Tipplers Passage and Currigee Reserves.
- 13 August 1999: Redeclaration:
- redeclared to cadastral boundaries
- clarify boundaries.
- 18 December 2003: Redeclaration:
- provide an exclusion area for a pre-existing activity.
- 17 March 2017: Redeclaration:
- designated mooring areas at Jacobs Well and Currigee to Management B areas to allow installation of buoy moorings.
Management features
- Habitat protection for seagrass meadows and shallow estuarine areas.
Habitat values
- Mangrove-dominated estuary and islands (Avicennia and Rhizophora)
- Sparse to dense seagrass beds (Zostera and Halophila)
- Over-wash and deltaic mangrove islands
- Sandy shoals
- Channels
- Extensive delta.
Fisheries values
- Local valuable recreational and commercial fisheries.
- Indigenous fishing.
- Important bream spawning area.
- Species:
- Bream
- Estuary cod
- Flathead
- Jewfish
- Mangrove jack
- School mackerel
- Sea mullet
- Snapper
- Tailor
- Whiting
- Eastern king prawns
- Bay prawns
- Oysters
- Mud crabs
- Sand crabs.
Unique features
- Unique system of islands and complex estuarine deposits.
- Important area for fisheries research.
- Lies within the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland.
Other values
- The only substantially undeveloped coastal area between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.