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Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens - Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery (16/01/2012)

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
 
 
I, NIGEL ROUTH, Assistant Secretary, Marine Biodiversity Policy Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 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 revoking the conditions to which the inclusion of the following item in the list on 1 December 2004 is subject:
 
·         Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the Act, taken in the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery,
 
and imposing the following conditions to which inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject:
·         the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully;
·         the specimens are included in the list until 28 September 2012;
·         operation of the Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery will be carried out in accordance with the management arrangements in force under the Queensland Fisheries Regulation 2008 and the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994; and
·         Fisheries Queensland to advise the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities of any proposed substantive changes to the Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Fin Fish Fishery management arrangements that may affect the assessment of the fishery against the criteria on which EPBC Act decisions are based.
 
 
Dated this 16th day of January 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
………………Nigel Routh………………
 
Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities