Unwanted Organisms Under Biosecurity Act 1993 (Notice No. 1016) I, Barry Desmond O'Neil, Chief Technical Officer, pursuant to the Biosecurity Act 1993, hereby declare the following organisms (many of which are identified by the name of the disease the organisms causes) that I believe are capable or potentially capable of causing unwanted harm to any natural resources, to be unwanted organisms for the purposes of the Biosecurity Act 1993: Diseases of animals Acute haemorrhagic septicaemia Acute fowl cholera Acute infectious laryngotracheitis African horse sickness African swine fever Anaplasmosis Anthrax Aujeszky's disease Babesiosis Blue tongue Borna disease Brucellosis Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia Equine encephalomyelitis Equine infectious anaemia Ephemeral fever Epizootic lymphangitis Foot and mouth disease Fowl plague Fowl tick fever Glanders Heart water Ixodidae Johne's disease Louping ill Lumpy skin disease Lymphomatosis Maedi-visna Melioidosis Newcastle disease Nodular worm of sheep Psittacosis `Q' fever Rabies Rabbit calicivirus Rift Valley fever Rinderpest Scrapie Swine fever Swine vesicular disease Sheep scab Sheep pox Stickfast flea Swine pox Teschen disease Theileriasis Trichinosis True Hydatids Trypanosomiasis Tuberculosis Tularemia Vesicular exanthema Vesicular stomatitis Warbles. Diseases of fish Aeromonas salmonicida (furunculosis) Infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) Myxosoma cerebralis (whirling disease) Spring viraemia of carp (SVC) Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) Yersinia ruckeri (enteric redmouth disease). Animals Boa constrictor Cherax tenuimanus (marron) Cherax quadracarinatus (red claw marron) Ictalurus punctatus (channel catfish) Haliotis rufescens (red paua). Relating to plants All those organisms affecting plants declared to be notifiable in the Biosecurity (Notifiable Organisms) Order 1993 and any subsequent amendments to that Order. Note: The above list is a compilation of all unwanted organisms as at 19 August 1996. The Chief Technical Officer is currently in the process of reviewing unwanted organisms that relate to animals. That review is expected to be finalised before the end of 1996, and this declaration will then be replaced. Dated at Wellington this 19th day of August 1996. BARRY O'NEIL, Chief Technical Officer.