Victorian PQ Aquatics Fishery seadragon and seahorse - application 2018

« PQ Aquatics

Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Application on ecological sustainability

About the application

The current export approval for PQ Aquatics is valid until 14 December 2018 and the fishery is now due for assessment for ongoing export accreditation. The Department of the Environment received an application, Wildlife trade operation PQ Aquatics 2018-2021, from PQ Aquatics in August 2018. The application has been prepared to address the Australian Government ‘Guidelines for the ecologically sustainable management of fisheries – 2nd edition’ and to provide updates on the implementation of recommendations made in the previous Australian Government assessment. 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 the PQ Aquatics operation, as managed consistent with the Victorian Fisheries Act 1995 and the Victorian Fisheries Regulations 2009, as an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act, and

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