Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Western Australia Abrolhos Islands and Mid West Trawl Managed Fishery (18/03/2008) (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:

• 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 Western Australia Abrolhos Islands and Mid West Trawl Managed Fishery, as defined in the Abrolhos Islands and Mid West Trawl Limited Entry Fishing Notice 1993 in force under the Western Australia Fish Resources Management 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 19 March 2013.

Dated this    eighteenth       day of         March              2008

……Ian Cresswell……

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