Gold Coast residents are outraged over a multi-billion dollar plan to turn Kirra Beach into a super port that includes a massive cruise terminal and a casino resort.

WORLD champion surfers Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson have backed calls to turn every Gold Coast beach into World Surfing Reserves.

Fanning and Parkinson hit the surf break at Kirra to rally support for the proposal early this morning.

Brad Farmer, head of National and World Surfing Reserves, urged Premier Campbell Newman to rule out "all commercial development" on Gold Coast beaches.

He said the move would "protect the Gold Coast from environmentally destructive cruise ship terminals and beachfront casinos".

"Our world surfing champions Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson have backed the idea," he said.

"We need an iron-clad agreement to ensure our beaches are off limits."

Parko to stop Broadwater cruise terminal

FORMER world surfing champion Joel Parkinson has turned his attention to stopping the Broadwater cruise ship terminal now that plans for Bilinga are dead in the water.

Premier Campbell Newman this week killed off any hopes billionaire developer Bob Ell and his business partners had of building the Gold Coast Ocean Terminal near Kirra Beach.

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Parko and Fanning call for beaches to be protected