Kippa-Ring declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

• South end of Deception Bay, 5 km 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