Fisheries Management (Continuation of Activities in Snowy River Catchment) Interim Order 2012 (NSW)

I, the Minister for Primary Industries, in pursuance of section 221IG of the Fisheries Management Act 1994, make the following Order.

Dated, this 10th day of February 2012.

Minister for Primary Industries

1Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management (Continuation of Activities in Snowy River Catchment) Interim Order 2012.

2Commencement

This Order:

• (a)

  commences on the day on which it is published in the Gazette, and

• (b)

  has effect for 6 months, and

• (c)

  is repealed at the end of the last day on which it has effect.

3Continuation of recreational fishing(1)

A recreational fisher may, subject to compliance with any applicable fishing regulatory controls, take or possess fish, or carry out any routine activity in connection with the taking or possession of fish, from the Snowy River Catchment.

(2)

In this clause:

applicable fishing regulatory controls means requirements imposed by or under the Fisheries Management Act 1994 that apply to or in respect of the activities concerned.

Snowy River Catchment means the catchment of the Snowy River in NSW as described in the final determination of the Fisheries Scientific Committee to list the aquatic ecological community in that catchment as an endangered ecological community.