Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery, Commonwealth (27/11/2009) (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 revoking the conditions to which the inclusion of the following item on the list on 14 April 2006 is subject:

• 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 Tuna and Billfish Fishery, as defined in the Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery Management Plan 2005, made under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

and imposing the following conditions to which inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject:

• the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully; and

• the specimens are included on the list until 1 December 2014.

Dated this 27^th day of November 2009

[signed]

……………Nigel Routh……………

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