Table 1a. Protected species interactions in the SESSF by sector, 2013–2015. CTS CTS CTS GHaT GHaT GHaT GABT GABT GABT Species 2013 2014 2015* 2013 2014 2015* 2013 2014 2015 Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Alive Dead Antarctic fur seal 1 Australian fur seal 63 54 20 72 9 59 1 2 2 1 Australian sea lion 1 2 (NZ) fur seal 1 3 1 1 1 5 1 7 1 Seals (unidentified sp) 22 102 18 32 10 12 1 4 7 3 3 1 Dolphins 1 3 1 8 3 22 13 Albatrosses 2 30** 14 1 5 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 Shy albatrosses 3 1 Cormorants 3 Pacific gull 1 Petrels, prions and shearwaters 3 11 1 1 2 13 2 21 3 12 1 Basking shark 1 Grey nurse shark Longfin mako 57 Shortfin mako 10 1 3 10 122 153 70
5. The Australian Fisheries Management Authority to: implement long-term management measures, including fisheries closures and other actions, that are clearly directed towards stopping the decline and supporting the recovery of Harrisson's dogfish and southern dogfish, and continue, in consultation with relevant experts, to monitor and review the adequacy of management measures designed to stop the decline and support the recovery of Harrisson's dogfish and southern dogfish. The Upper-slope Dogfish Management Strategy has been in place in the fishery since 2012. This was developed in consultation with the Threatened Species Scientific Committee. As part of the dogfish management strategy AFMA developed the Research and Monitoring Workplan 2014 – 2016. This workplan outlines how information will be collected to assess the effectiveness of the management strategy and lists a number of performance indicators and monitoring mechanisms that are used to ensure that the management strategy is fulfilling its objectives. In 2015, following advice from that post-release survival for upper slope dogfish caught using power handlines was high, AFMA removed the trigger limit move on provisions that had previously applied to this method. The Department of the Environment considers that this condition is ongoing. The Department considers that a new approved wildlife trade operation declaration for the SESSF specify a similar condition (see Condition 4, Table 4).
(5) In deciding whether to declare an operation as an approved wildlife trade operation the Minister must have regard to: whether legislation relating to the protection, conservation or management of the specimens to which the operation relates is in force in the State or Territory concerned; and whether the legislation applies throughout the State or Territory concerned; and whether, in the opinion of the Minister, the legislation is effective. The will be managed under the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003 (the Management Plan), in force under the Fisheries Management Act 1991. The Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 applies throughout Commonwealth waters. After evaluation of the fishery management measures in place for this fishery, summarised in Table 1, the Department considers that the legislation enforcing these measures throughout the fishery is likely to be effective. (10) For the purposes of section 303FN, an operation is a wildlife trade operation if, an only if, the operation is an operation for the taking of specimens and: the operation is a commercial fishery. The SESSF is a commercial fishery. (10A) In deciding whether to declare that a commercial fishery is an approved wildlife trade operation for the purposes of this section, the Minister must rely primarily on the outcomes of any assessment in relation to the fishery carried out for the purposes of Division 1 or 2 of Part 10. The impacts of actions under the operations of the SESSF were assessed under Part 10 of the EPBC Act in May 2007. That assessment concluded that actions approved or taken in accordance with the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003, as amended by the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan Amendment 2006 (No. 2), would not have an unacceptable or unsustainable impact on the environment in a Commonwealth marine area. Consequently, the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan