New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 220A

220A Objects of Part

The objects of this Part are as follows--

(a) to conserve biological diversity of fish and marine vegetation and promote ecologically sustainable development and activities,

(b) to prevent the extinction and promote the recovery of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation,

(c) to protect the critical habitat of those threatened species, populations and ecological communities that are endangered,

(d) to eliminate or manage certain processes that threaten the survival or evolutionary development of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation,

(e) to ensure that the impact of any action affecting threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation is properly assessed,

(f) to encourage the conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation by the adoption of measures involving co-operative management.