Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Pimpama
Pimpama declared Fish Habitat Area
Location
Part of Pimpama River and McCoy’s Creek, 20 km north/north-west of Southport.
Plan number
Size
241 ha
Management level
B
Declaration dates
12 June 1971 (original declaration)
23 January 1988 (redeclared to exclude part of Pimpama River)
13 August 1999 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries, to include adjoining fish habitats and to include some fish habitats previously excluded)
Local government
Gold Coast City Council
Management features
Protection of important fisheries habitat; wetlands buffer zone from rural development; adjacent to Jumpinpin-Broadwater declared Fish Habitat Area (management A).
Habitat values
Shallow mangrove-lined estuary dominated by Avicennia and Rhizophora, sandy shoals and delta.
Fisheries values
Commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishing; bream; estuary cod; flathead; garfish; luderick; mangrove jack; sea mullet; tailor; whiting; banana, eastern king and bay prawns.
Other values
None presently identified.