Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00168:schedule:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00168
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 10499–13380

Schedule 3—Reasons—prawns sourced from Australian territory other than the area to which the WSSV Movement Control Order relates

Note: See subparagraph 5(1)(b)(ii).

The principal determination suspends the bringing or importing into Australian territory of goods included in the proscribed class of goods.
When read with the Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016, one effect of the principal determination is to suspend the bringing or importing of such goods:
 into mainland Australia from an external Territory to which the Act extends; or
 into an external Territory to which the Act extends from mainland Australia; or
 into an external Territory to which the Act extends from another such external Territory.
The Department has assessed the biosecurity risks associated with WSSV in relation to these movements of goods. As a result of this assessment, it is now thought that these movements, other than in relation to prawns sourced from the area to which the WSSV Movement Control Order relates, represent an acceptable level of biosecurity risk that meets Australia's ALOP.

Prawns harvested from mainland Australia
Uncooked prawns harvested (whether farmed or wild caught) within mainland Australia, other than the area to which the WSSV Movement Control Order relates, and uncooked prawn meat sourced from such prawns, represents an acceptable level of biosecurity risk that meets Australia's ALOP, on the basis that:
 Prior to the Logan River outbreak in late November 2016 (see paragraph 5(d) of the principal determination), WSSV was considered exotic to Australian territory.
 Since that outbreak:
– White spot disease has only been reported in prawn farms located in the Logan River region including the Woongoolba, Steiglitz and Alberton areas (including the Logan River Control Area).
– WSSV has been detected in prawns caught from one wild sample site in southern Moreton Bay outside of the Logan River, adjacent to an infected farm. However, the source (farm escapees or wild) of these prawns is under investigation.
 The Queensland government has placed a Movement Control Order (the WSSV Movement Control Order) on the movement of decapod crustaceans, polychaete worms or water from the Logan River for 3 months, enforced from the 22 January 2017.
It is therefore reasonable to consider that uncooked prawns harvested (whether farmed or wild caught) from mainland Australia, other than the area to which the WSSV Movement Control Order relates, and uncooked prawn meat sourced from such prawns, represent an acceptable level of biosecurity risk to the external Territories to which the Act extends that meets Australia's ALOP.
The WSSV Movement Control Order is valid for 3 months from the 22 January 2017. If the Queensland government does not extend the Movement Control Order or apply an equivalent movement