Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order 2013 (NSW)

2013 No 432

New South Wales

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order 2013

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 22nd day of July 2013.

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, 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 Murray crayfish, Euastacus armatus, as a vulnerable species.

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

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Clause 1	Order 2013

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened

Species Conservation) Order 2013

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened
Species Conservation) Order 2013.

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 5 Vulnerable species and ecological communities

Insert in alphabetical order in Part 1 under the heading “Fish”:

Euastacus armatus (von Martens 1866) Murray crayfish