Declared Fish Habitat Area summary - Susan River
Kangaroo Island, Susan River declared Fish Habitat Area
Location
Susan River and parts of lower reaches of Mary River, 16 km south-east of Maryborough.
Plan number
Size
4,839 ha
Management level
A
Declaration dates
10 May 1986 (original declaration)
22 May 2009 (redeclared to cadastral boundaries, adjoining fish habitats included, mooring area excluded)
Local government
Fraser Coast Regional Council
Management features
Protection of recreational fishing grounds; penaeid prawn and mud crab habitat.
Habitat values
Closed Rhizophora and Avicennia forests; low Ceriops shrubland; intertidal sand flats and claypan; seagrass meadows.
Fisheries values
Recreational, commercial and Indigenous fishing; bream; estuary cod; flathead; garfish; grunter; luderick; mangrove jack; sea mullet; tailor; whiting; banana prawns; mud crabs.
Unique features
Avicennia mangroves in the Susan River declared FHA provide important habitat for the Illidge’s ant-blue butterfly Acrodipsas illidgei, which is listed as vulnerable under Queensland legislation and endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Other values
Dolphin habitat.
Further references
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (in prep), Enhanced management of Ramsar site wetlands within the Great Sandy Strait catchments, Final project report, Queensland Wetlands Program, Brisbane, Queensland.