Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation – Western Australian West Coast Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Interim Managed Fishery and the Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery, August 2024 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WEST COAST DEMERSAL GILLNET AND DEMERSAL LONGLINE INTERIM MANAGED FISHERY AND THE SOUTHERN DEMERSAL GILLNET AND DEMERSAL LONGLINE MANAGED FISHERY, AUGUST 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 Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, 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 Western Australian West Coast Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Interim Managed Fishery and the Western Australian Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the: * Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (WA) * Fish Resources Management Regulations 1995 (WA) * West Coast Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Interim Managed Fishery Management Plan 1997 * Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery Management Plan 2018,

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 bronze whaler (Carcharhinus brachyurus), spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), common blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), Australian blacktip shark (Carcharhinus tilstoni), dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), sicklefin lemon shark/sharptooth lemon shark (Negaprion acutidens), blue shark (Prionace glauca), scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran), and smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena), 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.