POLICIES 9.4 Sports fishing and game bird hunting
9.4 (a) Conservation management strategies should provide for access to recreational fishing for sports fish legally present in public conservation waters, where consistent with the purposes for which the land is held.
9.4 (b) Conservation management strategies should provide for hunting of game birds on public conservation lands, where such hunting:
- i. is consistent with the purposes for which the land is held; and
- ii. subject to the above criterion, does not have adverse effects on absolutely protected species or on populations of indigenous species.
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