Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation - Merv Cooper's Crazy Crabs

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION

I, Deb Callister, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, am satisfied that an operation to harvest and export Australian land hermit crabs (Coenobita variabilis) by Merv Cooper’s Crazy Crabs is a small-scale operation as defined by regulation 9A.20 under subsection 303FN(10). I declare under section 303FN(2) that Merv Cooper’s Crazy Crabs is an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation.

This declaration has effect subject to the following conditions applied under Section 303FT:

1. The operation is to be undertaken in accordance with the proposal submitted by Merv Cooper and exhibited for public comment on 16 May 2012.
2. All specimens of Coenobita variabilis exported under this wildlife trade operation must be legally collected by the applicant under a valid Western Australian Department of Fisheries Commercial Fishing License.
3. All specimens of Coenobita variabilis must be collected in a manner that is in accordance with any conservation or management plans for the collection sites and all relevant Western Australian wildlife and environmental legislation. In particular, collection must be consistent with any approved management plan for marine and terrestrial reserves for Eighty Mile Beach area.
4. The export of Coenobita variabilis is not to exceed 10,000 specimens per year.
5. An annual report covering the period from 1 July to 30 June containing all harvest and export figures for Coenobita variabilis is to be provided to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities by the proprietors of Merv Cooper’s Crazy Crabs by 31 August each year.
6. This declaration is valid for three years from the date of gazettal.

Dated this 16th day of November 2012

Signed Deb Callister

Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, a person or persons whose interests are affected by this declaration may, within 28 days, make an application in writing to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities for the reasons for the decision. An application for independent review of the decision may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, on payment of the relevant fee, by or on behalf of the person or persons whose interests are affected, either within 28 days of receipt of the reasons for the decision, or within 28 days of this declaration if reasons for the decision are not sought. Further information may be obtained from:

Director, Wildlife Trade Assessments

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

GPO Box 787

CANBERRA ACT 2601

Telephone: (02) 6274 2880 Facsimile: (02) 6274 1921