Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Line Fishery (26/11/2013) (inclusion) (Cth)

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 subsection303DC(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 that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates taken in the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Line Fishery, other than:

-specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act (other than a species listed in the conservation dependent category), and

-specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia’s CITES list),

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           26^th               day of           November         2013

Paul Murphy

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Delegate of the Minister for the Environment