Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Abalone Fishery, Vic (16/05/2008) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, IAN CRESSWELL, Assistant Secretary, Marine Environment Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts 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 specimens:

·    Blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra)

·    Greenlip abalone (Haliotis laevigata)

with a notation that inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject to the following restrictions or conditions:

• the specimen must have been taken in accordance with the Victorian Abalone Fishery Management Plan in force under the Victorian Fisheries Act 1995; and
• inclusion of the specimens in the list will expire 30 June 2009.

Dated this         16        day of               May     2008

…………………Ian Cresswell………………………..

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts