Australian export from New and Exploratory Fisheries in the CCAMLR Statistical Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 - Agency application 2015
Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Australian Fisheries Management Authority, 2015
Agency application on ecological sustainability
About the application
The Department of the Environment received an application, ‘Submission for Australian export from Exploratory Fisheries in the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), Statistical Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2’, from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority in August 2015. 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 (EPBC Act).
Consideration will be given to:
- declaring Australian harvest from ‘New and Exploratory Fisheries’ in the CCAMLR Statistical Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2, as managed consistent with the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981, as an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act, and
- including in the list of exempt native specimens, specimens harvested from ‘New and Exploratory Fisheries’ in the CCAMLR Statistical Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 under the provisions of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981.
In accordance with the provisions of sections 303FR and 303DC of the EPBC Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.
Download the application
Submission for Australian export from Exploratory Fisheries in the CCAMLR Statistical Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 (PDF - 952.87 KB)
Submission for Australian export from Exploratory Fisheries in the CCAMLR Statistical Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 (DOCX - 708.66 KB)
The call for public comments is open from 31 August 2015 until 01 October 2015.
Please submit your comments to:
The Director
Sustainable Fisheries Section
Department of the Environment
GPO Box 787
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Submissions may also be sent by fax to (02) 6274 2875, or email to sustainablefisheries@environment.gov.au
Any comments received will form part of the documentation provided to the Australian Government Minister for the Environment for a decision. Copies of comments may be made available to other persons with a particular interest in the application. If you wish to claim confidentiality for any part of your comments, would you please discuss the matter with the Director of the Sustainable Fisheries Section (02) 6274 1917.