New South Wales Ocean Trap and Line Fishery – Agency application 2021

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Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, April 2021

Agency application on ecological sustainability

About the application

Export approval for the New South Wales Ocean Trap and Line Fishery expires on 2 July 2021. In April 2021, the Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment received an application 'Assessment of the Ocean Trap and Line Fishery' from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. The application has been prepared to address the Australian Government 'Guidelines for the ecologically sustainable management of fisheries - 2nd edition'. The application will be used to assess the operation of the fishery for the purposes of Parts 13 and 13A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ( Act).

Consideration will be given to:

• declaring the New South Wales Ocean Trap and Line Fishery, as managed consistent with the Fisheries Management Act 1994; Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2019; Fisheries Management (Supporting Plan) Regulation 2006; Fisheries Management (Ocean Trap and Line Share Management Plan) Regulation 2006, as an approved wildlife trade operation, under section 303FN of the Act, and
• including in the list of exempt native specimens, specimens harvested in the Ocean Trap and Line Fishery, as managed consistent with the Fisheries Management Act 1994; Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2019; Fisheries Management (Supporting Plan) Regulation 2006; Fisheries Management (Ocean Trap and Line Share Management Plan) Regulation 2006.

In accordance with the provisions of sections 303FR and 303DC of the Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.

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