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Fish habitat area 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of fish habitat area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
2019 wetland system extent by fish habitat area metadata
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Fish habitat area Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 1,198,322 12 249,822 182 11 14 5,940 490 1,999 258,470
Annan River 1,745 416 < 1 170 586
Baffle Creek 2,310 681 38 152 871
Balban Dara Guya (Leekes Creek) 875 49 < 1 49
Barr Creek 63 53 53
Bassett Basin (Rev.1) 664 432 8 440
Beelbi 1,434 303 5 2 310
Bohle River 4,790 < 1 2,110 92 274 3 2,479
Bowling Green Bay 68,788 233 233
Broad Sound 170,245 1 36,211 77 12 19 16 36,337
Burdekin 92,311 < 1 12,575 13 8 99 96 12,791
Burrum 4,435 454 4 9 467
Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam 21,646 < 1 7,672 74 3 56 7,805
Cattle-Palm Creek 7,131 6 4,392 243 2 55 4,698
Cawarral Creek 3,121 < 1 2,360 2,360
Cleveland Bay 21,920 8,826 61 58 54 < 1 9,000
Colosseum Inlet 11,888 6,480 34 6 6,520
Coombabah 490 167 3 171
Coomera 603 424 99 523
Corio Bay 4,700 2,104 103 38 2,245
Currumbin Creek 9 6 6
Dē-răl-lĭ (Calliope River) 314 52 25 77
Dallachy Creek 1,689 559 588 3 1,150
Deception Bay 1,491 345 12 11 367
Edgecumbe Bay 19,603 2,811 8 2 < 1 25 2,846
Eight Mile Creek 35,129 2,157 2 141 2,301
Elliott River 774 406 5 411
Escape River 26,879 16,295 139 < 1 16,434
Eurimbula 588 440 < 1 440
Fitzroy River (Rev.1) 77,857 26,298 18 20 26,336
Half Moon Creek 209 < 1 190 3 < 1 193
Halifax 5,307 2,823 46 7 2,876
Hay's Inlet 1,221 705 2 707
Hinchinbrook 12,703 < 1 6,453 13 16 6,481
Hull River 1,502 887 339 26 1,253
Jumpinpin-Broadwater 10,412 < 1 4,824 180 5,004
Kauri Creek 6,483 1,680 59 < 1 1,740
K'gari 23,856 24 < 1 2 27
Kinkuna 1,629 454 76 529
Kippa-Ring 818 292 292
Kolan River 1,828 752 9 16 777
Maaroom 23,865 9,873 495 10,368
Maroochy 791 3 328 < 1 6 < 1 337
Meunga Creek 432 < 1 42 1 5 49
Midge 8,331 1,068 26 8 1,102
Moreton Banks 6,324 341 341
Morning Inlet - Bynoe River 39,900 12,273 3 174 12,451
Murray River 1,522 363 17 < 1 381
Myora - Amity Banks 7,327 194 11 205
Nassau River 15,070 3,095 7 275 3,377
Ngulun (Starcke River) 30,090 8,135 66 40 8,241
Noosa River (Rev.2) 6,080 175 141 5 321
Peel Island 1,579 139 64 203
Pimpama 236 137 < 1 138
Pine River Bay 25,461 7,329 248 < 1 7,578
Princess Charlotte Bay 122,655 11,526 143 22 11,691
Pumicestone Channel 9,511 < 1 2,311 11 1,340 12 3,674
Repulse 69,827 < 1 7,047 50 40 7,137
Rodds Harbour 12,047 5,133 19 8 5,161
Sand Bay 11,472 < 1 3,332 2 3 18 9 3,364
Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill 1,328 788 6 794
Silver Plains 52,106 511 5 < 1 517
Staaten-Gilbert 22,204 4,309 100 326 4,735
Susan River 4,839 < 1 2,751 14 428 20 3,213
Tallebudgera Creek 35 11 < 1 11
Temple Bay 19,411 3,774 41 72 3,887
Tin Can Inlet 1,437 300 8 308
Trinity Inlet 7,168 < 1 3,410 < 1 6 5 3,421
Tully River 656 318 60 22 401
West Hill 17,877 2,624 19 88 < 1 75 2,806
Wreck Creek 1,221 460 234 693
Wuthathi Rev.1 (Margaret Bay) 27,938 3,263 44 < 1 3,307
Yorkeys Creek 121 72 < 1 2 74

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of fish habitat areas.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Fish habitat area 2019 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2019/fish-habitat-area.html

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