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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – COMMONWEALTH CORAL SEA FISHERY, NOVEMBER 2022

I, ADAM SINCOCK, Principal Director, Wildlife Trade Office, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water, hereby vary under paragraph 303FT(7)(b) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) the declaration of an approved wildlife trade operation dated 27 July 2021 for the Commonwealth Coral Sea Fishery, as defined in the management regime in force under the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth) and Fisheries Management Regulations 2019 (Cth), such that the conditions specified in the Schedule to that declaration is varied as follows:

In Condition 2, delete the words

    "The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must inform the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment of any intended material changes to the Coral Sea Fishery's management arrangements that may affect the assessment against which Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 decisions are made."

and replace with the words

    "The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must inform the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water of any intended material changes to the Coral Sea Fishery's management arrangements that may affect the assessment against which Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 decisions are made."

In Condition 3, delete the words

    "The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must inform the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment of any intended changes to fisheries legislation that may affect the legislative instruments relevant to this approval."

and replace with the words

    "The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must inform the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water of any intended changes to fisheries legislation that may affect the legislative instruments relevant to this approval."

In Condition 4, delete the words

    "The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must provide reports to the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment annually as per Appendix B of the Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries - 2nd Edition."

and replace with the words

    "The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must provide reports to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water annually as per Appendix B of the Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries - 2nd Edition."

In Condition 7, delete the words

    "As part of the annual reporting requirement referred to in Condition 4, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority must report the following to the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, as the CITES Scientific Authority of Australia:

         a)      the harvested weight and locations of harvest for each coral species. This reporting must be undertaken at a species-level.

         b)      the number of individual Humphead Maori Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), their sex, lengths and locations of harvest.