Pimpama declared Fish Habitat Area

Location and plan number

• Part of Pimpama River and McCoy’s Creek, 20km north to north-west of Southport
• Plan number: FHA-022
• City of Gold Coast Council

Size and management level

• 241 ha – Management B.

Declaration history

• 12 June 1971: Original declaration.
• 23 January 1988: Redeclaration:
  • exclude part of the Pimpama River.
• 13 August 1999: Redeclaration:
  • to cadastral boundaries
  • include adjoining fish habitats
  • include some fish habitats previously excluded.

Management features

• Protection of important fisheries habitat.
• Wetlands buffer zone from rural development.
• Adjacent to Jumpinpin–Broadwater Fish Habitat Area (Management A area).

Habitat values

• Shallow mangrove-lined estuary (dominated by Avicennia and Rhizophora)
• Sandy shoals
• Delta.

Fisheries values

• Commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishing.
• Species:
  • Bream
  • Estuary cod
  • Flathead
  • Garfish
  • Luderick
  • Mangrove jack
  • Sea mullet
  • Tailor
  • Whiting
  • Banana prawns
  • Eastern king prawns
  • Bay prawns.

Unique features

• Lies within the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland.

Other values

• None presently identified.