K’gari declared Fish Habitat Area
Location and plan number
- Foreshores of K'gari, between Moon Point, Sandy Cape and Hook Point
- Plan number: FHA-053 (Revision 1)
- Fraser Coast Regional Council
Size and management level
- 23,837 ha – Management B.
Declaration history
- 17 November 1983: Original declaration.
- 28 March 2008. Redeclaration:
- redeclared to cadastral boundaries
- include adjoining fish habitats.
- 29 March 2024: Redeclaration, effective from 21 May 2024:
- name changed from Fraser Island Fish Habitat Area to K’gari to reflect the official name change of the island
- outer boundary revised in the vicinity of Beaksea Spit to reflect the limit of Queensland Coastal Waters.
Management features
- Protection of foreshores for commercial ocean beach and recreational tailor fisheries.
Habitat values
- Interface of tropical and temperate floral assemblages
- Supports a high diversity of mangrove species (dominated by Avicennia, Aegiceras, Ceriops and Rhizophora)
- Extensive sheltered tidal flats
- Steep rocky cliffs
- Sandy ocean beaches
- Some freshwater springs.
Fisheries values
- Fish communities comprise of tropical and temperate species.
- Species:
- Bream
- Estuary cod
- Flathead
- Grey mackerel
- Luderick
- Mangrove jack
- Mulloway
- Sea mullet
- School mackerel
- Spotted mackerel
- Swallowtail dart
- Golden trevally
- Tailor
- Whiting
- Eastern king prawns.
Unique features
- Best example of a complex of wetlands characteristic of south-east Queensland.
Other values
- None presently identified.
References
- Beumer, J and Halliday, I 1994, Effects of habitat disturbance on coastal fisheries resources of Tin Can Bay/Great Sandy Strait, Report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.
- 2016: Enhanced management of Ramsar site wetlands within the Great Sandy Strait catchments.
- Lee Long, W J and O’Reilly, W K 2007, Ecological character description for the Great Sandy Strait Ramsar site July 2007, Report for the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency.