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Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens – Queensland Blue Swimmer Crab and Queensland Mud Crab fisheries, February 2019

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This instrument revises federal wildlife-trade rules for Queensland Blue Swimmer and Mud Crab fisheries by replacing old exemptions with new, conditioned exemptions. It incorporates Queensland’s state fishing laws into the federal rule, making state management requirements enforceable under national law.

It affects commercial crab fishers and seafood exporters, and matters because it changes when a federal export permit is needed and what fishers must do to qualify for exemption.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens – Queensland Blue Swimmer Crab and Queensland Mud Crab fisheries, February 2019

I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, pursuant to subsection 303DC(1)(a) 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 specimens and any associated restrictions or conditions as set out in Schedule 1, and by including in the list specimens and associated restrictions or conditions as set out in Schedule 2.

This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003.

The instrument commences the day after it is registered.

All state and territory legislation referred to in Schedule 2 to the instrument is incorporated as in force at the time this instrument commences.

Dated this 26th day of February 2019

Paul Murphy

….……………………………………………….

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens – Queensland Blue Swimmer Crab and Queensland Mud Crab fisheries, February 2019

This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003.

The instrument commences the day after it is registered.

All state and territory legislation referred to in Schedule 2 to the instrument is incorporated as in force at the time this instrument commences.

Dated this 26th day of February 2019 Dated this 26th day of February 2019

Dated this 26th day of February 2019

Paul Murphy

….……………………………………………….

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment