Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Spanner Crab Fishery, Qld (29/01/2007) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, ROBYN BROMLEY, Acting Assistant Secretary, Marine Environment Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage 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:

• 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, as defined in the regime made under the Fisheries (Spanner Crab) Management Plan 1999 and the Queensland Fisheries Regulations 1995 in force under the 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 specimen is included on the list until 5 February 2012.

Dated this         twenty-ninth                  day of               January 2007

………………Robyn Bromley…………………………

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage