Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation – Queensland Aquarium Fish Fishery, April 2024 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – QUEENSLAND AQUARIUM FISH FISHERY, APRIL 2024

I, BELINDA JAGO, Branch Head, Ocean and Wildlife Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water, have considered in accordance with section 303FN of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) the application from the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, public comments on the proposal as required under section 303FR and advice on the ecological sustainability of the operation. I am satisfied on those matters specified in section 303FN of the EPBC Act. I hereby declare the operations for the harvesting of specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, taken in the Queensland Aquarium Fish Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the: * Fisheries Act 1994 (Qld) * Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 (Qld) * Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019 (Qld) * Fisheries Declaration 2019 (Qld),

but not including: (a) specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 209 of the EPBC Act (Australia's List of Migratory Species), or (b) specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 248 of the EPBC Act (Australia's List of Marine Species), or (c) specimens that belong to eligible listed threatened species, as defined under section 303BC of the EPBC Act, or (d) specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia's CITES List), except for silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus), bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus), graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides), grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), pigeye shark (Carcharhinus amboinensis), spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna), nervous Shark (Carcharhinus cautus), Australian blackspot shark (Carcharhinus coatesi), creek whaler (Carcharhinus fitzroyensis), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), common blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), hardnose shark (Carcharhinus macloti), blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus), dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), spot-tail shark (Carcharhinus sorrah), Australian blacktip shark (Carcharhinus tilstoni), sicklefin lemon shark/sharptooth lemon shark (Negaprion acutidens), milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus), Australian sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon taylori), whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus), giant shovelnose ray (Glaucostegus typus), whitespotted guitarfish/bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae), eyebrow wedgefish (Rhynchobatus palpebratus) and shark ray (Rhina ancylostoma), to be an approved wildlife trade operation, in accordance with subsection 303FN(2) and paragraph 303FN(10)(d), for the purposes of the EPBC Act.