Amendment of the List of Exempt Native Specimens removal of specimens, Coral Sea Fishery (16/11/2007) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, CLAIRE HOWLETT, Acting Assistant Secretary, Marine Environment Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources 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 deleting from the list the following items:

• Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the Act, taken in the trawl, line, trochus and rock lobster, aquarium and trap (trial) sectors of the Coral Sea Fishery, as defined in the Coral Sea Fishery Statement of Management Arrangements 2004/05, made under the Fisheries Management Act 1991; and

• Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the Act, taken in the Sea Cucumber Sector of the Coral Sea Fishery.

The instrument commenced on the day it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

Dated this 16 day of November 2007

Claire Howlett

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Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources