Report, Fisheries Management Aquaculture Reg 1995 Fisheries Management Aquaculture Amdt Admin Reg 1999

Report Date	Thursday 30 November 2000
Date Tabled	Thursday 30 November 2000
Ordered Printed	Friday 1 December 2000
Paper Number	13/52
Number of Pages	21
Context	General Matters (inquiry), Regulation Review Committee

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This report examines and makes recommendations relating to the Fisheries Management (Aquaculture) Regulation 1995 and a recent amendment to it, the Fisheries Management (Aquaculture) Amendment (Administration) Regulation 1999. The Committee held hearings on the regulation in March and October and among other things the Committee recommends that the Minister for Agriculture ensure that adequate staff are retained by Safe Food Production NSW in order to enable it to expeditiously complete the sanitary surveys of the State’s waterways. The Committee recommends that funding be provided to sewer critical areas of the Hawkesbury River catchment and that the Hawkesbury be adopted as a pilot scheme for the classification of waters by reference to sanitary surveys in the light of its importance to the industry. The Committee also recommends that Safe Food and the Waterways Authority incorporate world’s best practice in the New South Wales Shellfish Quality Assurance Program and take such other action as will enable the export of New South Wales oysters to any nation. The Committee believes that the principal regulation should make it an offence for large commercial and hire vessels to approach within 100 metres of an oyster lease and that these vessels should be fitted with adequate storage tanks for sewage and be provided with pump out facilities to prevent pollution of the waterways.

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