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Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (NSW) Inc. 19 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA SUSPENSIONS To improve the management of wild deer, minimise their impact on agriculture, the environment, economy and local communities, and allow more options for control, blanket suspension orders for eight Local Government Areas (LGAs) with large populations of wild deer are in force from Friday 2 June 2017. One suspension order is already in force in the Port Macquarie Hastings LGA, to support the activities of a local wild deer management working group, taking the total number of LGAs with deer hunting regulations suspended to nine. LGAs with suspended deer hunting regulations are: • Bega Valley, • Glen Innes Severn, • Liverpool Plains, • Port Macquarie Hastings, • Snowy Monaro, • Snowy Valleys, • Tenterfi eld, • Upper Hunter, and • Wollongong. Suspending the normal regulations that apply to deer hunting allows NSW game hunting licence holders to hunt in ways that would otherwise be prohibited, such as: • removing the requirement to hunt certain species during a defi ned season, • use of spotlights or electronic devices, • hunting of game fl eeing fi re or smoke, • use of aircraft, watercraft or motor vehicles, • use of baits, lures or decoys, and • hunting at night. Each suspension order covers private and other lands within the LGA. However, any public lands that are declared and open for hunting within the LGA are not part of the suspended area. Start of suspension: Friday 2 June 2017 Expiry of suspension: Monday 1 June 2020 I'm a landholder who wants assistance from licensed hunters to manage deer If you are a landowner or manager of property within a suspended LGA, you are able to call on licensed, reputable hunters for support in managing wild deer on your land. For each suspended LGA, DPI administers a hunter register and a landholder register. Hunters must nominate which of the eight areas they are available to hunt in and landholders may view the hunter register for the LGA their property is located in. I'm a hunter who's willing to assist landholders manage deer If you hold either a NSW General or Restricted game hunting licence, and you would like to help landholders manage wild deer, you may apply for a listing on a LGA hunter register or for access to an EDM landholder register. To access these registers, please visit http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/hunting/game-and-pests/ managing-wild-deer-in-nsw/local-government-area- suspensions For more information on managing wild deer in NSW, please visit http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/hunting/game- and-pests/managing-wild-deer-in-nsw