Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order 2012 (NSW)

2012 No 79

New South Wales

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order 2012

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

The Fisheries Scientific Committee established under the Fisheries Management Act 1994, in pursuance of section 220D of the Fisheries Management Act 1994, makes the following Order.

Dated, this 11th day of January 2012.

Dr Jane Williamson

Chairperson of the Fisheries Scientific Committee

Explanatory note
Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 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 of species, populations and ecological communities and key threatening processes.
The object of this Order is to give effect to the final determination of the Fisheries Scientific Committee to list the aquatic ecological community in the catchment of the Snowy River in NSW as an endangered ecological community. A copy of the final determination of the Fisheries Scientific Committee is available on the Internet at

This Order is made under section 220D of the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

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Clause 1	Order 2012

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened

Species Conservation) Order 2012

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened
Species Conservation) Order 2012.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Fisheries Management Act 1994

Schedule 4 Endangered species, populations and ecological communities

Insert at the end of Part 3:

Aquatic ecological community in the catchment of the Snowy River in NSW (as described in the final determination of the Fisheries Scientific Committee to list that aquatic ecological community)