Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Queensland Spanner Crab Fishery (12/01/2011) (inclusion) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, NATHAN HANNA, Acting 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 including in the list the following:

• specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act, taken in the Queensland Spanner Crab Fishery, which comprises the ‘C2’ and ‘C3’ areas of the ‘commercial spanner crab fishery’ as defined in the Queensland Fisheries Regulation 2008 in force under the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994.

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 included on the list until 5 February 2012.

Dated this 12^th day of             January 2011

…………Nathan Hanna……………

Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities