Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Coomera
Coomera Creek
Location
Part of Southport Broadwater adjacent to Coomera Island, 15 km north/north-west of Southport, Gold Coast.
Plan number
Size
607 ha
Management level
B
Declaration dates
19 November 1983 (original declaration)
13 August 1999 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries and to include adjoining fish habitats)
Local government
Gold Coast City Council
Management features
Wetlands buffer zone from residential development and associated run-off for the Jumpinpin-Broadwater declared FHA.
Habitat values
Avicennia and Rhizophora zones along estuary and tidal creeks, scattered seagrass beds and saltmarsh.
Fisheries values
Commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries; bream, estuary cod, flathead, garfish, luderick, mangrove jack, sea mullet, tailor, whiting, banana prawns, eastern king prawns, bay prawns.
Other values
None presently identified.