Threat Abatement Plan for the incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations (2018) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia Threat Abatement Plan for the incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations (2018) I, MELISSA PRICE, Minister for the Environment, under section 270B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 make the Threat Abatement Plan for the incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations (2018), for the purpose of reducing the effect of the key threatening process as specified below:

Key Threatening Process Threat Abatement Plan Incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations Department of the Environment and Energy (2018). Threat Abatement Plan for the incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations (2018)

The plan commences the day after it is registered.

Dated 2 October 2018

Melissa Price Minister for the Environment

THREAT ABATEMENT PLAN for the incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations (2018)

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