COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Subsection 209(1)(b)
 
Update of the List of Migratory Species
 
 
 
I, PETER ROBERT GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, pursuant to subsection 209(1)(b) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, amend the list of migratory species to include all species required to be included under paragraph 209(3)(a) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, following inclusion on Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (‘Bonn Convention’) of:
 
Common name                       Scientific name          
 
Porbeagle shark                        Lamna nasus                          
 
Shortfin mako shark                  Isurus oxyrinchus
 
Longfin mako   shark                Isurus paucus                         
 
This instrument will commence on 29 January 2010.
 
 
Dated this 11th day of December 2009.
 
Peter Robert Garrett
 
PETER ROBERT GARRETT
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts