Fisheries Management Act 1991 Sedentary Organism Proclamation (Cth)

Fisheries Management Act 1991

PROCLAMATION

I, WILLIAM GEORGE HAYDEN, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under subsection 12 (1) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991, being satisfied that a marine organism belonging to a species referred to in the Schedule is, for the purposes of international law, part of the living natural resources of the Australian continental shelf because it is, for the purposes of international law, an organism belonging to a sedentary species, declare that an organism of a species so referred to is a sedentary organism to which that Act applies.

Signed and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia

on 12 December 1995.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

DP Beddall

Minister for Resources

SCHEDULE

SEDENTARY ORGANISMS TO WHICH THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 APPLIES

1.         Beche-de-mer (also known as trepang) of every species included in Phylum Echinodermata, Class Holothuroidea, Order Aspidochirotida, Families Holothuriidae and Stichopodidae

2.         Bivalve molluscs of every species in Phylum Mollusca, Class Bivalvia included within:

pearlshell species of the Family Pteriidae, Genus Pinctada;

giant clam species of the Family Tridacnidae;

pipi species of the Family Donacidae;

razor shell species of the Family Pinnidae;

heart cockle species of the Family Cardiidae

3.         Gastropods of Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda included within:

abalone species of the Family Haliotidae;

cowries of the Family Cypraeidae;

bailer shells of the Family Volutidae, Genus Melo

4.         Green snails, Turbo marmorarus

5.         Commercial trochus shell, Trochus niloticus

6.         Giant trumpet shells, Charonia tritonis