Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00775:reg:18:p13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00775
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 18 (pt 13/152)
Character Range: 75211–78186

southern atoll an ongoing problem. In 1998 the Australian Federal Police implemented a gun control program under the National Firearms Program Implementation Act 1998 for registered firearms in the territory. This has helped to reduce the level of poaching of protected seabirds.

In Tasmania, Little Penguin, Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens) and Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) have previously been used illegally by crayfishers as bait for their pots (Serventy et al. 1971). Historic impacts also extended to Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator) breeding on Cat Island with the species eventually expatriated in the 1980s (Serventy et al. 1971). Cat Island had been the largest gannet colony in Australia before its demise. The practice of egg collection or "egging" still occurs in some parts of northern Australia by Indigenous communities and Norfolk Island but is not considered a widespread threat to any seabird population.

The Native Title Act 1993 identifies activities such as hunting and fishing as potential native title rights and interests and permits Native Title holders to hunt certain species for the purposes of satisfying their personal, domestic or non-commercial communal needs. In Tasmania, there is an annual take of Short-tailed Shearwater chicks which is regulated by the Tasmanian Government. There are three separately managed harvests namely:
      Indigenous commercial harvest – undertaken on three islands; Trefoil Island off Tasmania's north west coast in western Bass Strait; Great Dog (or Big Dog) Island and Babel Island, both in the Furneaux Island Group in Eastern Bass Strait. This harvest is licensed by the Tasmanian Government, but it does not undertake any monitoring on these sites or require harvesters to report numbers harvested. This industry is entirely self-managed with the community undertaking monitoring – no quotas are set by the Tasmaninan Government. However, the industry has been shown to self-manage, for example the community shut down harvest in 2014 due to low chick numbers. Season duration is restricted by the Tasmanian Government.
      Indigenous cultural harvest – undertaken under permit on a couple of small sites including (in recent years) South Arm and Cape Queen Elizabeth on Bruny Island, both in southern Tasmania and at Seymour on Tasmania's east coast. The Tasmanian Government monitors the South Arm colony, the number of harvesters is restricted, and daily bag limits apply. There is also a small unreported cultural harvest on indigenous-owned islands.
      Recreational harvest – undertaken under license between 38 and 44 of Tasmania's known 209 colonies (Skira et.al. 1996) and open to anyone eligible for purchasing a recreational license. Harvest areas include King Island and the Hunter Island Group both in western Bass Strait; the Furneaux Island Group in eastern Bass Strait and Tasmania's West Coast, near Strahan. The season generally runs for