Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Colosseum Inlet
Mangroves, Colosseum Inlet declared Fish Habitat Area
Location
Colosseum Inlet / Seven Mile Creek area, 20 km south of Gladstone.
Plan number
Size
11,816 ha
9,886 ha management A
1,930 ha management B
Management level
A and B
Declaration dates
19 November 1983 (original declarations)
19 December 2003 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries and to combine Innes, Colosseum, Wild Cattle and Boyne Creek FHAs)
Local government
Gladstone Regional Council
Management features
Important fish and juvenile prawn habitats.
Habitat values
Extensive mangroves, with Avicennia, Excoecaria, Rhizophora, Ceriops and Aegialitis common; bar zone; island-banks; silty sand; channels; deltaic islands; samphire and clay pan; small coral community; seagrass beds towards Tannum Sands.
Fisheries values
Important commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries; barramundi, blue salmon, bream, estuary cod, flathead, grey mackerel, grunter, jewfish, king salmon, mangrove jack, queenfish, sea mullet, school mackerel, whiting, banana prawns, endeavour prawns, king prawns, mud crabs.
Other values
None presently identified.