Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation – Queensland Sea Cucumber Fishery (East Coast), November 2024 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – QUEENSLAND SEA CUCUMBER FISHERY (EAST COAST), NOVEMBER 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 Sea Cucumber Fishery (East Coast) as defined in the management regime in force under the: * Fisheries Act 1994 (Qld) * Marine Parks Act 2004 (Qld) * Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (Cth) * Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) * Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 (Qld) * Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019 (Qld) * Fisheries Declaration 2019 (Qld) * Fisheries Quota Declaration 2019 (Qld) * Marine Parks Regulations 2019 (Qld) * Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019 (Cth). 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), except for white teatfish (Holothuria fuscogilva), black teatish (Holothuria whitmaei), prickly redfish (Thelenota ananas) and amberfish (Thelenota anax), 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.