Australia: NSW lists two Hammerhead shark species under Fisheries Management Act 1994

Fisheries Management Amendment
(Threatened Species Conservation)
Order (No 3) 2012

under the Fisheries Management Act 1994

Published  18 May 2012

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 8th day of May 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 species, populations, ecological communities or threatening processes.

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

(a) to list the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, as an endangered species, and

(b) to list the great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran, as a vulnerable species.

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

1 Name of Order

This Order is the Fisheries Management Amendment (Threatened Species Conservation) Order (No 3) 2012.

2 Commencement

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

3 Amendment of Fisheries Management Act 1994 No 38

(1) Schedule 4 Endangered species, populations and ecological communities

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

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834)    scalloped hammerhead shark

(2) Schedule 5 Vulnerable species and ecological communities

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

Sphyrna mokarran (Ruppell, 1837)    great hammerhead shark

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Additional Note :

Fisheries Management Act 1994

Shark species currently listed as critically endangered :

• Sandtiger shark  (Carcharias taurus ).

Shark species currently listed as endangered :

• Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini).

Shark species currently listed as vulnerable :

• Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran),
• Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).

Source: NSW legislation, for a PDF-file of Order (No 3) 2012 click here .