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Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens - Torres Strait Prawn Fishery (28/03/2012)

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This instrument lets seafood from the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery be exported without individual Australian wildlife export permits, provided it was lawfully taken under the Torres Strait fisheries laws.

It affects commercial fishers covered by the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery Management Plan 2009 and their exporters, streamlining trade until the exemption expires on 9 August 2012 while keeping legality and review safeguards.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, NATHAN HANNA, Acting Assistant Secretary, Marine Biodiversity Policy Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 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 in the list on 27 February 2009 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 Torres Strait Prawn Fishery, as defined in the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery Management Plan 2009 in force under the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984
and Torres Strait Fisheries Regulation 1985

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 in the list until 9 August 2012.

Dated this 28th day of March 2012

……………………Nathan Hanna……………………

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

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