COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
 
 
I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by including in the list the following:
 
·         Gould’s squid (Nototodarus gouldi) taken by Rossglengary Pty Ltd T/A Aqua Marine Tasmania, in the Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery, as defined in the management regime for the fishery made under the Tasmanian Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 and the Tasmanian Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2004,
 
with a notation that inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject to the following restrictions or conditions:
 
·         the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully, and
·         the specimens are covered by the declaration of an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act in relation to the fishery.
 
 
 
Dated this 16th day of             December 2013
 
 
 
 
….……………………Paul Murphy………………………
 
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment