Peel Island declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

  • Peel, Bird and Goat Islands, west of Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island, 32km east of Brisbane
  • Plan number: FHA-010
  • Redland City Council

Size and management level

  • 1,571 ha – Management A.

Declaration history

  • 12 June 1971: Original declaration.
  • 24 July 1998: Redeclaration:
    • redeclared to cadastral boundaries.

Management features

  • Fish habitat protection.

Habitat values

  • High habitat connectivity
  • Fringing mangroves (dominated by Avicennia with Rhizophora)
  • Sand foreshores
  • Submerged coral reef
  • Shoals
  • Sparse or dense seagrass beds (Zostera and Halophila).

Fisheries values

  • Coral reef habitat directly supports recreational, commercial and Indigenous fisheries.
  • Species:
    • Bream
    • Cobia
    • Flathead
    • Garfish
    • School mackerel
    • Snapper
    • Spotted mackerel
    • Sea mullet
    • Sweetlip
    • Tailor
    • Tuskfish
    • Various emperor species
    • Whiting
    • Oysters
    • Marine aquarium fish
    • Mud crabs
    • Sand crabs
    • Banana prawns
    • Eastern king prawns
    • Bay prawns.

Unique features

  • Lies partially within and adjacent to the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland.

Other values

  • Protects important marine turtle and dugong habitats.
  • A popular area for boating day trips in Moreton Bay.