Commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009

This inquiry was established on 25 November 2021 to inquire into and report on the commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009.

The transcript for the 19 August hearing in Sydney is available here.

The video recording of the Sydney hearing is available on the NSW Parliament's YouTube channel here.

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This inquiry was self-referred on 25 November 2021.

Terms of Reference - Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009 - Updated 24 May 2022

Date	Milestone
25 Nov 2021	Self-referred
28 Feb 2022	Submissions closed
28 Jul 2022	Hearing - Narooma Club, 88 Princes Hwy , Narooma NSW
19 Aug 2022	Hearing - Room 814, Parliament House, Sydney
07 Nov 2022	Final Report
07 Feb 2023	Government Response to Final Report

No. 1 Mr Julian Richards
No. 2 Name suppressed
No. 3 Name suppressed
No. 4 Name suppressed
No. 5 Mr Troy Pender
No. 5a Mr Troy Pender
No. 6 Name suppressed
No. 7 Mr Steven Holmes
No. 7a Mr Steven Holmes
No. 8 Mr Robert Chewying
No. 9 University of Technology Sydney
No. 10 Ms Linda Longbottom
No. 11 Mr Stewart Davison
No. 12 Mr Chris Young
No. 13 Mr Wally Stewart
No. 13a Mr Wally Stewart
No. 14 Mr Kevin Mason
No. 15 Mr Andrew Nye
No. 16 Name suppressed
No. 17 Honorary Associate Professor Janet Hunt
No. 18 Mr Nicholas Glover
No. 19 Mr Douglas Seymour
No. 20 Name suppressed
No. 21 Mr John Carriage
No. 22 NSW Aboriginal Land Council
No. 23 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
No. 24 Mr Troy Tungai
No. 25 Mr Adrian Connolly
No. 26 Mr Craig Wellington
No. 27 Name suppressed
No. 28 Mr Ewan Thomas
No. 28a Mr Ewan Thomas
No. 29 Mr Bill Cooley
No. 30 Oxfam Australia
No. 31 Katungul Aboriginal Corporation Regional Health and Community Services
No. 33 Mr Wayne Carberry
No. 34 Mr Tony McAvoy SC and Mr John Waters SC
No. 35 Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security
No. 36 The Recreational Fishing Alliance of NSW
No. 37 NSW Council for Civil Liberties
No. 38 Nature Conservation Council of NSW
No. 39 South Coast Aboriginal Fishing Rights Group (SCAFRG)
No. 40 NSW Government
No. 41 NTSCORP
No. 42 Dr Natalie Kwok
No. 43 Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited
No. 44 Abalone Association NSW
No. 45 Ms Vivienne Mason
No. 46 Mr John Brierley
No. 47 Mr Wayne Anderson
No. 48 Anthony Henry
No. 49 Professional Fisher's Association

Date	Venue Details
28/07/2022	Narooma Club, 88 Princes Hwy , Narooma NSW		Schedule	Transcript
19/08/2022	Room 814, Parliament House, Sydney		Schedule	Transcript

DateSort	Report Name	Tabled Date	Government Response
	Government response - Report No 55 - PC 4 - Customer Service and Natural Resources - Commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009	07/02/2023
	Report No 55 - PC 4 - Customer Service and Natural Resources - Commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009	07/11/2022

DateSort	Date	Type	Title
2022-11-07	07/11/2022	Media Release	Report tabled - inquiry into the commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009
2022-10-27	27/10/2022	Correspondence	Clarification of transcript from NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries
2022-10-17	17/10/2022	Answers to Questions on Notice	Answers to questions on notice - hearing 19 August 2022 - NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries - received 17 October
2022-10-17	17/10/2022	Answers to Questions on Notice	Further information from NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries
2022-10-14	14/10/2022	Answers to Questions on Notice	Ms Kate Thomann, Executive Director, Research and Education group, AIATSIS - receive 6 October 2022
2022-10-14	14/10/2022	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Department of Primary Industries \| Fisheries - received 5 October
2022-09-23	23/09/2022	Answers to Questions on Notice	Dr Paul Cleary, Policy and Advocacy Lead, First Peoples Program, Oxfam Australia
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Opening statement from the Recreational Fishing Alliance of NSW
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Notice of rebuttal of claim of title to land and claim of right
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Opening statement from Abalone Association NSW
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	NSW Environmental Code of Practice for the Abalone and, Sea Urchin and Turban Shell Fisheries
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	The Abalone Brochure NSW
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	NSW Total Allowable Fishing Committee Report Abalone Determination for the 2021-2022 fishing period
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Fine Scale Management: Training Module 3 by Rob Day for the Abalone Fishing Industry 2005 Australian Government Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	How do abalone live?: Training Module 1 by Rob Day the Abalone Fishing Industry 2005 Australian Government Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	NSW Government Aboriginal Fishing Trust Fund (established under the Fisheries Management Act 1994) expenditure from 2017-18 to 2020-01
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Timeline from 2009 to 2022 of NSW Government actions and engagement with Aboriginal stakeholders since the introduction of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Application form for an Authority to take fish for Aboriginal cultural fishing purposes under Section 37 of the Fisheries Management Act 1994
2022-09-16	16/09/2022	Tendered Document	Summary of Section 37 cultural fishing permits issued from 2010 to August 2022
2022-08-29	29/08/2022	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Robert Chewying, Representative of the South Coast Aboriginal Fishing Rights Group
2022-08-17	17/08/2022	Media Release	Public hearing - Commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2009 - 19 August 2022
2022-07-27	27/07/2022	Media Release	Media release - committee visiting Narooma - 28 July 2022
2022-07-25	25/07/2022	Other	Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries - Supplementary Information
2021-11-25	25/11/2021	Media Release	Upper House Committee announces new inquiry

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