COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

Amendment - List of Specimens Taken to be Suitable for Live Import – s.303EB

 

I, PETER ROBERT GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, pursuant to paragraph 303EC(1)(a) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, make the following amendment to Part 2 of the list of specimens taken to be suitable for live import, established under s.303EB of the Act, under the heading Vertebrate Animals, Bony fishes (Osteichthyes) in the appropriate alphabetical positions:

 

Taxon

Common Name

Appendix

Conditions for Import

Chionodraco hamatus

Icefish

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Gymnodraco acuticeps

Dragonfish

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Pagetopsis macropterus

Crocodile Icefish

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Pagothenia borchgrevinki

Bald Notothen

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Trematomus bernacchii

Emerald Rockcod

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Trematomus hansoni

Striped Rockcod

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Trematomus newnesi

Dusky Notothen

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Trematomus nicolai

Spotted Notothen

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

Trematomus pennellii

Sharp Spined Notothen

 

Eligible non-commercial purpose only, excluding household pets. High security facilities only.

 

This change will take effect on the first day on which it is no longer liable to be disallowed.

 

Dated this  5th  day of  February  2008

 

Peter Garrett

 

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts