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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – QUEENSLAND CORAL FISHERY, OCTOBER 2024

I, TANYA PLIBERSEK, Minster for the Environment and Water, have considered in accordance with section 303FN of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) the application from the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, public comments on the proposal as required under section 303FR and advice on the ecological sustainability of the operation. I am satisfied on those matters specified in section 303FN of the EPBC Act. I hereby declare the operations for the harvesting of specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, taken in the Queensland Coral Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the:
      * Fisheries Act 1994 (Qld)
      * Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (Cth)
      * Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 (Qld)
      * Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019 (Qld)
      * Fisheries Declaration 2019 (Qld)
      * Fisheries Quota Declaration 2019 (Qld)
      * Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019 (Cth),
but not including:
   1.     specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 209 of the EPBC Act (Australia's List of Migratory Species), or
   2.    specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 248 of the EPBC Act (Australia's List of Marine Species), or
   3.     specimens that belong to eligible listed threatened species, as defined under section 303BC of the EPBC Act, or
   4.    specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia's CITES List), except for specimens that belong to taxa listed in Schedule 1,
to be an approved wildlife trade operation, in accordance with subsection 303FN(2) and paragraph 303FN(10)(d), for the purposes of the EPBC Act.

Unless amended or revoked, this declaration:
 1.               is valid until 28 October 2027, and
 2.              is subject to the conditions applied under section 303FT specified in Schedule 2.

Dated this 21 day of October 2024

T. Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water
Notes:
   1.         Australia's obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) are met through Part 13A of the EPBC Act. Specimens of species listed in Appendix II of Australia's CITES list under section 303CA of the EPBC Act may only be exported, under a CITES export permit issued under the EPBC Act, if Australia's CITES Scientific Authority has issued a non-detriment finding for that species. Further information, including a list of species for which non detriment findings have been issued and the fisheries from which they may be sourced, is available from https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/wildlife-trade/cites.