Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens – NSW Estuary Prawn Trawl, NSW Ocean Trawl and NT Demersal fisheries, April 2018 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens – NSW Estuary Prawn Trawl, NSW Ocean Trawl and NT Demersal fisheries, April 2018

I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Assistant Minister for the Environment and Energy, 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 1st day of May 2018

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Energy

SCHEDULE 1

Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals delete from the list the following items and any associated notations: Taxon/Item Common Name Notation Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates taken in the New South Wales Estuary Prawn Trawl Fishery, but not including: New South Wales Estuary Prawn Trawl Fishery The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully, and