Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Eurimbula
Sandy shorelines of Eurimbula declared Fish Habitat Area
Location
Eurimbula Creek, west of the Town of Seventeen Seventy.
Plan number
Size
606 ha
Management level
A
Declaration dates
19 November 1983 (original declaration)
19 December 2003 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries)
Local government
Gladstone Regional Council
Management features
Important conservation area – of scientific value as an undisturbed standard for comparison and reservoir for replenishing locally exploited estuaries such as Round Hill Creek.
Habitat values
Extensive zones of Avicennia, Aegiceras, Osbornia, Rhizophora and Ceriops mangroves; some patches of saltmarsh and claypan; sandy beaches; intertidal flats.
Fisheries values
Recreational and Indigenous fishing within the area; important mud crab and commercial fish habitat (nursery); barramundi; blue salmon; bream; estuary cod; flathead; grey mackerel; grunter; jewfish; king salmon; mangrove jack; queenfish; sea mullet; school mackerel; whiting; banana prawns; mud crabs.
Unique features
One of only two estuaries where the mangrove Lumnitzera racemosa is locally common.
Other values
None presently identified.