Kippa-Ring declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

  • South end of Deception Bay, 5km west to south-west of Redcliffe
  • Plan number: FHA-014 (Revision 1)
  • City of Moreton Bay

Size and management level

  • 818 ha – Management A.

Declaration history

  • 23 January 1969: Original declaration.
  • 24 July 1998: Redeclaration:
    • redeclared to cadastral boundaries.
  • 21 December 2012: Redeclaration:
    • improve boundary definition, including the offshore boundary.

Management features

  • Protection of estuarine and bay fish habitats near urban development.
  • Seasonal seagrass.
  • Extensive sand and mud intertidal flats.
  • Mangrove communities along the southern foreshore of Deception Bay.

Habitat values

  • Sandy and silty-sand foreshores and shoals
  • Mangrove-dominated foreshore (Avicennia and Ceriops)
  • Saltmarsh flats (Samphire) and seagrass beds.

Fisheries values

  • Commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries.
  • Species:
    • Bream
    • Blue salmon
    • Estuary cod
    • Flathead
    • Garfish
    • Jewfish
    • Luderick
    • Mangrove jack
    • Sea mullet
    • Tailor
    • Whiting
    • Mud crabs
    • Sand crabs
    • Banana prawns
    • Eastern king prawns
    • Bay prawns.

Unique features

  • Lies within the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland.

Other values

  • Popular recreational area.