Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Fisheries Management Amendment

(Threatened Species Conservation) Order

2019

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 28th day of October 2019.

MARK LINTERMANS

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 Hippocampus whitei (Bleeker, 1855), White’s Seahorse, as an endangered species.

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

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order 2019 [NSW]

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species

Conservation) Order 2019

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species

Conservation) Order 2019.

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 No 38

Schedule 4 Endangered species, populations and ecological communities

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

Hippocampus whitei (Bleeker, 1855) White’s Seahorse