Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023N00258:schedule:1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023N00258
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 2907–6084

Schedule 1

Declaration of the harvest operations of the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery as an approved wildlife trade operation, August 2023

Condition 1
Operation of the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery must be carried out in accordance with the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019, Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019, Fisheries Declaration 2019, and the Fisheries Quota Declaration 2019.

Condition 2
The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries must inform the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water of any intended material changes to the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery management arrangements that may affect the assessment against which Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 decisions are made.

Condition 3
The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries 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.

Condition 4
The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries must produce and present reports on the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by November annually, as per Appendix B of the Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries – 2nd Edition.

Condition 5
If Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries implement its proposed expansion to the area of the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery, the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries must:

    a)      within 30 days of implementing any management changes, inform the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water of the management changes to the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery.

    b)      within 12 months of implementing any management changes, review and update the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery Environmental Risk Assessment to include the new areas of the fishery.

Condition 6
By 31 August 2024, the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries must develop and implement an annual robust, independent, quantitative, and validated monitoring and data collection program in the Queensland Commercial Trawl (Fin Fish) Fishery. This may involve the use of electronic monitoring, onboard observers, or other means.

The information collected must be sufficient to reliably demonstrate the accuracy of all reported catch, effort and protected species interaction data collected via logbooks. This program needs to gather suitable data on the level of catch, discards and interactions in the fishery to inform the sustainable management of target, byproduct and bycatch species (including protected species).

Performance of the program, including comparative analyses of fishery dependent and independent data sources must be included in annual reports provided to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water as part of condition 4.

Condition 7
The Queensland Department