Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2012 (NSW)

2012 No 86

New South Wales

Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 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 1st day of March 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 endangered species, populations, ecological communities or threatening processes.
The object of this Order is to give effect to the final determination of the Fisheries Scientific Committee to list the Fitzroy Falls spiny crayfish, Euastacus dharawalus, as a critically endangered species.

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

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Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened

Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2012

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened
Species Conservation) Order (No 2) 2012.

2      Commencement

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

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Schedule 4A Critically endangered species and ecological communities

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

Euastacus dharawalus (Morgan, 1997) Fitzroy Falls spiny crayfish