Assessment of the New South Wales Lobster Fishery
Environmental assessment report under the EPBC Act
Department of the Environment and Heritage, January 2006
ISBN 0 642 55215 0
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About the report
The New South Wales (NSW) Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has submitted documents for assessment under Parts 13 and 13A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). These documents were prepared under the NSW legislated Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for fisheries. The EIA process for the Lobster Fishery was undertaken in conjunction with the EPBC Act assessment and is still to be finalised.
The Lobster Fishery Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), containing the draft Fisheries Management Strategy (FMS), was received by the Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) in December 2004 and released for a thirty-day public comment period that expired on 4 February 2005. Nineteen public submissions were received. DEH also provided comments to DPI on the EIS. DPI then submitted a draft Preferred Strategy Report (PSR) to DEH in November 2005.
For the purposes of the EPBC Act assessment, the EIS, together with the draft FMS and PSR, constitute the submission. The final FMS is yet to be determined and made available by the NSW Minister for Primary Industries.
The DEH assessment against the Australian Government Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries has considered the submission, associated documents, public comments and DPI’s response to the comments through the draft PSR.
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