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List of Exempt Native Specimens Amendment (Western Australian Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery) Instrument January 2025

I, JESSICA HOEY, A/g Branch Head, Ocean and Wildlife Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

23 January 2025    

JESSICA HOEY

Jessica Hoey

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water

 

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

List of Exempt Native Specimens Instrument 2001

 


 

This instrument is the List of Exempt Native Specimens Amendment (Western Australian Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery) Instrument January 2025.

 This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

 This instrument is made under subsection 303DC(1)(a) of the EPBC Act.

 In this instrument:

 EPBC Act means the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

 Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

  1.         Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals

Omit the following rows in the table:

Taxon/Item

Common Name

Notation

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 Western Australian Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery.

Western Australian Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery

The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully;
The specimens are included in the list until 30 May 2025.

2  Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals

Insert the following rows in the appropriate place in the table:

Taxon/Item 

Common Name 

Notation 

Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates taken in the Western Australian Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery, as defined in the management regime specificied in the Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery Management Plan 2010 in force under the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (WA) and the Fish Resources Management Regulations 1995 (WA), but not including:

  1.     specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 209 of the EPBC Act (Australia’s List of Migratory Species), or
  2.    specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 248 of the EPBC Act (Australia’s List of Marine Species), or
  3.     specimens that belong to eligible listed threatened species, as defined under section 303BC of the EPBC Act, or
  4.    specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia’s CITES List).

Western Australian Gascoyne Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery

The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully;

The specimens are covered by the declaration of an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act in relation to the fishery.