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Fish habitat area pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of fish habitat area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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Pre-clear 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)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 1,198,322 250,007 11 6,169 * n/a * n/a
Annan River 1,745 417 < 1 170 587
Baffle Creek 2,310 690 40 * n/a * n/a
Balban Dara Guya (Leekes Creek) 875 49 < 1 49
Barr Creek 63 54 54
Bassett Basin (Rev.1) 664 458 8 466
Beelbi 1,434 303 5 * n/a * n/a
Bohle River 4,790 2,275 202 3 2,481
Bowling Green Bay 68,788 244 < 1 244
Broad Sound 170,245 36,407 12 19 36,439
Burdekin 92,311 11,939 5 555 12,500
Burrum 4,435 457 4 * n/a * n/a
Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam 21,646 7,658 88 56 7,802
Cattle-Palm Creek 7,131 4,405 234 69 4,708
Cawarral Creek 3,121 2,368 2,368
Cleveland Bay 21,920 8,959 26 < 1 8,985
Colosseum Inlet 11,888 6,492 34 * n/a * n/a
Coombabah 490 164 5 168
Coomera 603 431 99 530
Corio Bay 4,700 2,107 103 38 2,248
Currumbin Creek 9 6 6
Dē-răl-lĭ (Calliope River) 314 52 * n/a * n/a
Dallachy Creek 1,689 561 589 3 1,153
Deception Bay 1,491 349 21 12 383
Edgecumbe Bay 19,603 2,827 2 * n/a * n/a
Eight Mile Creek 35,129 2,157 2 142 2,300
Elliott River 774 407 5 413
Escape River 26,879 16,287 139 < 1 16,427
Eurimbula 588 440 < 1 440
Fitzroy River (Rev.1) 77,857 26,399 18 20 26,436
Half Moon Creek 209 192 4 1 197
Halifax 5,307 2,846 44 9 2,899
Hay's Inlet 1,221 701 3 704
Hinchinbrook 12,703 6,438 13 18 6,468
Hull River 1,502 888 339 * n/a * n/a
Jumpinpin-Broadwater 10,412 5,170 177 5,347
Kauri Creek 6,483 1,680 59 < 1 1,740
K'gari 23,856 26 < 1 3 29
Kinkuna 1,629 454 76 530
Kippa-Ring 818 293 293
Kolan River 1,828 773 9 19 801
Maaroom 23,865 9,875 495 10,370
Maroochy 791 336 16 352
Meunga Creek 432 42 < 1 7 50
Midge 8,331 1,064 41 * n/a * n/a
Moreton Banks 6,324 220 220
Morning Inlet - Bynoe River 39,900 12,273 3 175 12,450
Murray River 1,522 363 17 < 1 381
Myora - Amity Banks 7,327 194 11 205
Nassau River 15,070 3,095 7 276 3,379
Ngulun (Starcke River) 30,090 8,139 66 40 8,245
Noosa River (Rev.2) 6,080 179 146 * n/a * n/a
Peel Island 1,579 140 64 203
Pimpama 236 144 < 1 144
Pine River Bay 25,461 7,329 248 < 1 7,578
Princess Charlotte Bay 122,655 11,524 145 23 11,691
Pumicestone Channel 9,511 2,344 11 1,360 14 3,728
Repulse 69,827 7,019 59 57 7,135
Rodds Harbour 12,047 5,134 19 8 5,162
Sand Bay 11,472 3,364 4 * n/a * n/a
Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill 1,328 788 6 794
Silver Plains 52,106 507 6 < 1 514
Staaten-Gilbert 22,204 4,308 100 * n/a * n/a
Susan River 4,839 2,781 499 3,280
Tallebudgera Creek 35 14 < 1 14
Temple Bay 19,411 3,774 41 72 3,887
Tin Can Inlet 1,437 297 8 305
Trinity Inlet 7,168 3,178 10 7 3,195
Tully River 656 316 60 22 398
West Hill 17,877 2,645 92 78 2,815
Wreck Creek 1,221 461 232 693
Wuthathi Rev.1 (Margaret Bay) 27,938 3,263 44 < 1 3,307
Yorkeys Creek 121 76 < 1 * n/a * n/a

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

* Pre-clear riverine wetland statistics are not available in this area. A comprehensive evaluation is currently underway of the effect of identified limitations on the statistical analysis process used to monitor wetland extent change. During this time, selected riverine wetland statistics will be temporarily unavailable as they may be disproportionately impacted. It is expected that this evaluation will be completed in late 2024.

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 pre-clear wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/fish-habitat-area.html

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