Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Western Australian Trochus Fishery (15/06/2009) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, NIGEL ROUTH, Assistant Secretary, Marine Biodiversity Policy 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 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 Trochus Fishery, as defined in the management regime 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 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  15   day of   June 2009

……………………Nigel Routh………………………

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