Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 1) 2008 (NSW)

2008 No 433

New South Wales

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 1) 2008

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

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

Dated, this 23rd day of September 2008.

R. WEST,

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.
The object of this Order is to give effect to final determinations of the Fisheries Scientific

Committee that change the status of the following species:

(a)	Carcharias taurus (commonly known as the grey nurse shark),
(b)	Craterocephalus fluviatilis (commonly known as the Murray hardyhead),
(c)	Pristis zijsron (commonly known as the green sawfish),
(d)	Mogurnda adspersa (commonly known as the purple spotted gudgeon),
(e)	Archaeophya adamsi (commonly known as the Adam’s emerald dragonfly),
(f)	Macquaria australasica (commonly known as Macquarie perch),
(g)	Nereia lophocladia (commonly known as marine brown alga),
(h)	Nannoperca australis (commonly known as southern pygmy perch).

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

Published in Gazette No 123 of 26 September 2008, page 9561	Page 1
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Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened

Species Conservation) Order (No 1) 2008

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened
Species Conservation) Order (No 1) 2008.

2      Commencement

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

3 Amendment of Fisheries Management Act 1994 No 38

The Fisheries Management Act 1994 is amended as set out in
Schedule 1.

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Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]      Schedule 4 Endangered species, populations and ecological communities

Omit the following from Part 1:

*Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 grey nurse shark

Craterocephalus fluviatilis (McCulloch, 1913) Murray hardyhead

Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 Green sawfish

[2]      Schedule 4, Part 1

Insert the following in alphabetical order:

Archaeophya adamsi Fraser, 1959	Adam’s emerald dragonfly
Macquaria australasica (Cuvier, 1830)	Macquarie perch
Nannoperca australis Günther, 1861	southern pygmy perch
Mogurnda adspersa (Castelnau, 1878)	purple spotted gudgeon

[3]      Schedule 4, Part 2

Omit the following:

Mogurnda adspersa (Castelnau, 1878) purple spotted gudgeon, western
New South Wales population

[4]      Schedule 4, Part 4

Insert under the heading “Fish”:

Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 green sawfish

[5]      Schedule 4A Critically endangered species and ecological communities

Insert in Part 1:

Fish

*Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 grey nurse shark

Craterocephalus fluviatilis (McCulloch, 1913) Murray hardyhead

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Marine vegetation

Nereia lophocladia J. Agardh (1897) marine brown alga

[6]      Schedule 5 Vulnerable species and ecological communities

Omit the following from Part 1:

Archaeophya adamsi Fraser, 1959	Adams emerald dragonfly
Macquaria australasica (Cuvier, 1830)	Macquarie perch
Nannoperca australis Günther, 1861	southern pygmy perch
Nereia lophocladia J. Agardh (1897)	marine brown alga

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