Fisheries Management Act 1994

critical habitat means habitat declared to be critical habitat under Division 3.

critically endangered ecological community means an ecological community specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4A.

critically endangered species means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4A.

critically endangered species and ecological communities means species and ecological communities specified in Schedule 4A and critically endangered species or ecological community means a species or ecological community respectively specified in that Schedule.

ecological community means an assemblage of species of fish or marine vegetation (or both) occupying a particular area.

endangered ecological community means an ecological community specified in Part 3 of Schedule 4.

endangered population means a population specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4.

endangered species means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4.

endangered species, populations and ecological communities means species, populations and ecological communities specified in Schedule 4 and endangered species, population or ecological community means a species, population or ecological community respectively specified in that Schedule.

environmental planning instrument or EPI means an environmental planning instrument under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

fish means any fish indigenous to New South Wales.

Fisheries Scientific Committee means the Fisheries Scientific Committee constituted under Division 9.

harm means—

but in any such case does not include harm by changing the habitat of the fish or marine vegetation.

joint management agreement means an agreement entered into under Division 8.

key threatening process means a threatening process specified in Schedule 6.

land includes—

landholder of land means a person who owns land or who, whether by reason of ownership or otherwise, is in lawful occupation or possession, or has lawful management or control, of land.

list means a list set out in Schedules 4–6, and includes a list in one or more of those Schedules that does not contain any entries.

local strategic plan means a local strategic plan approved under Part 4 of the Local Land Services Act 2013.

marine vegetation means any marine vegetation indigenous to New South Wales.

NPW Act means the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.

NRC means the Natural Resources Commission established under the Natural Resources Commission Act 2003.

population means a group of organisms, all of the same species of fish or marine vegetation, occupying a particular area.

Priorities Action Statement means a Threatened Species Priorities Action Statement under Division 5A.

public authority means a public authority (as defined in section 4), and includes a person exercising any function on behalf of the authority and any person prescribed by the regulations to be a public authority.

recovery plan means a recovery plan prepared and approved under Division 5.

species means a species of fish or marine vegetation, and includes any defined sub-species and taxon below a sub-species and any recognisable variant of a sub-species or taxon.

species impact statement means a statement referred to in Subdivision 2 of Division 6 and includes an environmental impact statement, prepared under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, that contains a species impact statement.

species presumed extinct means a species specified in Part 4 of Schedule 4.

threat abatement plan means a threat abatement plan prepared and approved under Division 5.

threatened ecological community means an ecological community specified in Part 3 of Schedule 4, Part 2 of Schedule 4A or Part 2 of Schedule 5.

threatened species means a species specified in Part 1 (Endangered species) or 4 (Species presumed extinct) of Schedule 4, Part 1 (Critically endangered species) of Schedule 4A or Part 1 (Vulnerable species) of Schedule 5.

threatened species, populations and ecological communities means species, populations and ecological communities specified in Schedules 4, 4A and 5 and threatened species, population or ecological community means a species, population or ecological community respectively specified in any of those Schedules.

Threatened Species Scientific Committee means the Scientific Committee constituted under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

threatening process means a process that threatens, or that may threaten, the survival or evolutionary development of species, populations or ecological communities of fish or marine vegetation.

vulnerable ecological community means an ecological community specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5.

vulnerable species means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 5.

Note.

Coastal waters of the State is defined in section 58 of the Interpretation Act 1987. Generally speaking, coastal waters extend to the waters of the sea within 3 nautical miles of the coast.