Fisheries Management Act 1994 Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2001 (2001-719) [GG No 134 of 31.8.2001, p 7530] (NSW)

2001 No 719

Fisheries Management AmendmentNew South Wales

(Threatened Species Conservation)

Order (No 2) 2001

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

I, the Minister for Fisheries, on the recommendation of the Fisheries Scientific Committee, make the following Order under section 220D of the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

Signed and sealed at Sydney this 30th day of August 2001.

The Hon EDWARD OBEID, M.L.C.,

Minister for Fisheries

Explanatory note

Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 (the Act) deals with the conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation. For the purposes of identification and classification, provision is made for the listing:

(a) in Schedule 4 to the Act, of endangered species, endangered populations, and endangered ecological communities and species that are presumed to be extinct, and

(b) in Schedule 5, of vulnerable species, and
(c) in Schedule 6, of key threatening processes.
Under the Act, listings and amendments to listings are to be made by the Minister
by order on the recommendation of the Fisheries Scientific Committee (the

Committee).

Published in Gazette No 134 of 31 August 2001, page 7530	Page 1
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Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2001

Explanatory note

The object of this Order is to list the olive perchlet in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the population is a reproducing population but its numbers have been reduced to such a critical level that it is in immediate danger of extinction, and that it is disjunct and at or near the limit of its geographic range and it is likely to be genetically distinct.

Act (Endangered populations), as recommended by the Committee.

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Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation)	Clause 1
Order (No 2) 2001

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened
Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2001

1. Name of Order

   This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened

   Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2001.

2 Commencement

This Order takes effect on the date that it is published in the Gazette.

1. Amendment of Fisheries Management Act 1994—Schedule 4, Part 2 Endangered populations

   The Fisheries Management Act 1994 is amended by inserting in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to that Act in alphabetical order under the heading “Fish”:

   Ambassis agassizii Steindachner, 1866, olive perchlet, western New

   South Wales population

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Order.

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