Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation – Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery, February 2025 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – TASMANIAN GIANT CRAB FISHERY, FEBRUARY 2025

I, JESSICA HOEY, Director, Sustainable Fisheries Section, 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 Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania 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 Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery, as defined in the management regime in force under the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 (Tas), the Fisheries (Giant Crab) Rules 2023 (Tas), and the Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015 (Tas), 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).

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.

Unless amended or revoked, this declaration:

1. is valid until 28 February 2028 and;

2. is subject to the conditions applied under section 303FT specified in Schedule 1.