Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Eight Mile Creek
Mouth of Eight Mile Creek
Location
150 km north-west of Burketown, between Tully Inlet and Bundella Waterholes.
Plan number
Size
35,245 ha
Management level
A
Declaration dates
19 May 1990 (original declaration)
1 July 2010 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries; extended seaward)
Local government
Burke Shire Council
Management features
Conservation of commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries resources.
Habitat values
Narrow discontinuous fringe of Avicennia along stream banks; extensive unvegetated sand flats occur both within and outside estuary.
Fisheries values
Commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries; barramundi; blue salmon; grey mackerel; king salmon; queenfish; grunter; mud crabs; catfish.
Other values
None presently identified