Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00020:schedule:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00020
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 6621–9761

should allow for implementation during the next term of the Wildlife Trade Operation approval for the fishery.

Condition 7

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority must:

     1.       Maintain the annual 15 tonne total allowable commercial catch limit (TACC) for prickly redfish (Thelenota ananas)

     2.      By 25 May 2025, implement an annual 10-tonne total allowable commercial catch limit (TACC) for amberfish (Thelenota anax)

     3.       Maintain the existing annual 20 tonne total allowable commercial catch limit (TACC) for black teatfish (Holothuria whitmaei). Although the Australian Fisheries Management Authority may allow for up to 10 per cent under catch of the black teatfish (Holothuria whitmaei) TACC to be carried over from one fishing season to the subsequent fishing season.

     4.      Maintain the existing annual 15 tonne total allowable commercial catch limit (TACC) for white teatfish (Holothuria fuscogilva).

These TACCs must be maintained at these levels until scientific evidence can be provided to substantiate a deviation.

Condition 8

By 1 July 2026, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority must implement the following enforceable minimum size limits:

     1.       prickly redfish (Thelenota ananas) – 50 cm

     2.      amberfish (Thelenota anax) – 50 cm

     3.       black teatfish (Holothuria whitmaei) – 33cm

     4.      white teatfish (Holothuria fuscogilva) – 40cm

These limits must be maintained until scientific evidence can be provided to substantiate a deviation.

Condition 9

By 25 May 2025, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority must establish accurate ratios for converting between all processed and unprocessed forms of prickly redfish (Thelenota ananas) and amberfish (T. anax) used in the Commonwealth Torres Strait Bêche-de-mer Fishery. Conversion ratios should be consistent across Commonwealth and Queensland managed fisheries where appropriate. Precautionary proxy conversion ratios can be adopted from other fisheries or jurisdictions until more accurate conversion ratios can be established.

Condition 10

By 25 May 2026, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority must review existing spatial management arrangements to evaluate whether these arrangements are sufficient to manage the risk of localised depletion of sea cucumbers in the Commonwealth Torres Strait Bêche-de-mer Fishery.

Condition 11

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries must continue efforts to support coordination of monitoring and management of straddling or otherwise linked sea cucumber stocks in the Commonwealth Coral Sea Fishery, Commonwealth Torres Strait Bêche-de-mer Fishery, and Queensland Sea Cucumber Fishery (East Coast).

This may include review and further development of harvest strategy frameworks and fishery reference points; temporal and spatial closures; minimum size limits; rotational zone size, timing and move-on provisions; research into life history parameters; Management Strategy Evaluation; and conversion ratios across all three fisheries to reduce risk to species in the region.