Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation – Commonwealth Coral Sea Fishery, January 2025 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – COMMONWEALTH CORAL SEA FISHERY, JANUARY 2025

I, Matt Flood, A/g 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 existing wildlife trade operation established for the Commonwealth Coral Sea Fishery, public comments on the proposal to declare a new wildlife trade operation 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 Commonwealth Coral Sea Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth) and the Fisheries Management 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 specimens that belonging to the family Acroporidae, humphead Maori wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), black teatfish (Holothuria whitmaei), white teatfish (H. fuscogilva), silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus), grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), common blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus), Australian blacktip shark (Carcharhinus tilstoni), whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus), amberfish (Thelenota anax) and prickly redfish (Thelenota ananas),