Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Revocation of Accreditation of a Plan, Regime or Policy for the purposes of Part 13.

Accreditation of a Plan, Regime or Policy for the purposes of Part 13.

Commonwealth Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery, November 2022

I, Adam Sincock, Principal Director, Wildlife Trade Office, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water:

a) revoke the accreditation of the management regime for the Commonwealth Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery dated 23 July 2013, and

b) being satisfied that:

i) the management regime for the Commonwealth Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery in force under the:

Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth)
Fisheries Management Regulations 2019 (Cth)
Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan 1995,

requires persons engaged in fishing under the management regime to take all reasonable steps to ensure that members of listed threatened species, listed migratory species, cetaceans and listed marine species are not killed or injured as a result of the fishing, and

ii) the fishery to which the management regime relates does not, or is not likely to, adversely affect:

a) the survival or recovery in nature of any listed threatened species, or

b) the conservation status of a listed migratory species, cetacean, or listed marine species or a population of that species,

accredit the management regime for the Commonwealth Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery in force under the:

Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth)
Fisheries Management Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan 1995,

under sections 208A, 222A, 245 and 265 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) for the purposes of Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively of Part 13 of the EPBC Act.

This instrument commences the day after it is registered.

Dated this 7th day of November 2022

Adam Sincock

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Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water