Marine park · Queensland

Corio Bay Fish Habitat Area (A)

Facts about this park from CAPAD 2024 and the world data on Biohotspot. Each figure is computed from the dataset named beside it; a figure that is missing or fails a check is left out.

Area: 47.0 km²
IUCN category Ia: 0.0 %
Gazetted: 1983
Open layers with data: 161

The park

Corio Bay covers 47.0 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
CAPAD 2024 holds 2 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
None of the park is in zones of IUCN category Ia, strict nature reserve.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
CAPAD lists it as Fish Habitat Area (A).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Its managing authority in CAPAD is QLD_DES.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
It was gazetted in 1983 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0

Area by IUCN category
IUCN category	km²	Share
VI	47.0	100.0 %

Habitats and blue carbon

Global Mangrove Watch maps 1,860 ha of mangroves inside the park in 2020.Global Mangrove Watch v3 · CC BY
The modelled kelp forest biome covers none of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0
Sanderman et al. (2018) map 554,692 tonnes of carbon in the top metre of mangrove soil inside the park, 238 tonnes per hectare on average.Sanderman et al. 2018 · CC0 1.0
Maxwell et al. (2024) map 13,668 tonnes of carbon in the top metre of tidal marsh soil inside the park, 190 tonnes per hectare on average.Maxwell et al. 2024 · CC BY 4.0

Data and research

161 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
No document in the Biohotspot research library matches the search “Corio Bay”.

Sources and licences

Modelled Global Distribution of the Kelp Biome · UNEP-WCMC Ocean Data Viewer (hosting); University of Auckland / Nord University authors
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Jayathilake D.R.M., Costello M.J. 2020. A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome. Biological Conservation 252, 108815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108815 (v2: Jayathilake & Costello 2021, Biological Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109099)
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) · UNEP-WCMC / Zenodo
Licence: CC BY (UNEP WESR catalogue entry); not stated on the UNEP-WCMC resources page or the Zenodo v3 page
Bunting, P.; Rosenqvist, A.; Hilarides, L.; Lucas, R.M.; Thomas, T.; Tadono, T.; Worthington, T.A.; Spalding, M.; Murray, N.J.; Rebelo, L-M. Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996 - 2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing. 2022.
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine · Australian Government, DCCEEW
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (2025). Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine.
Global soil organic carbon in tidal marshes, version 2 (0–30 and 30–100 cm) · Maxwell, Spalding, Friess et al.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Maxwell T.L. et al. (2024) Soil carbon in the world's tidal marshes. Nat. Commun. 15, 10265. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54572-9
Global mangrove soil carbon, 0–100 cm (100 m mosaic) · Woods Hole Research Center / The Nature Conservancy
Licence: CC0 1.0
Sanderman J. et al. (2018) A global map of mangrove forest soil carbon at 30 m spatial resolution. Environ. Res. Lett. 13 055002. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aabe1c

A park here is the CAPAD 2024 Marine zones that share a name and a state. Habitat areas are the habitat maps’ polygons inside the park; carbon, heat stress and human impact are the map cells that touch it. Only sources with an open licence are used. Computed on 2026-10-27.