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Victorian Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery - Agency application 2015

« Victorian Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery

Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Fisheries Victoria August 2015

Agency application on ecological sustainability

About the application

The Department of the Environment received an application, ‘Application to the Department of Environment for the Assessment of the Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria) Fishery’ and relevant documents, from Port Phillip Bay Scallops, Victoria, 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 the Victorian Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery, as managed consistent with the Victorian Fisheries Act 1995 and the Fisheries Regulations 2009, as an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act, and
  • including in the list of exempt native specimens, specimens harvested in the Victorian Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery under the provisions of the Victorian Fisheries Act 1995 and the Fisheries Regulations 2009.

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

Application to the Department of Environment for the Assessment of the Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria) Fishery (PDF - 864.04 KB)
Victoria Government Gazette 2015 (PDF - 266.52 KB)
Commercial Fishery Plan (PDF - 478.38 KB)
Commercial Scallop Dive Fishery (Port Phillip) Survey Results for 2014 (PDF - 1.66 MB)
Proposal to establish a commercial dive fishery for scallops in Port Phillip Bay (PDF - 673.01 KB)
Commercial Scallop Dive Fishery (Port Phillip Bay) Baseline Management Arrangements (PDF - 1.11 MB)
Total Allowable Commercial Catch Setting Process for the Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery – Statutory Consultation Plan (PDF - 714.1 KB)
Total Allowable Commercial Catch Setting Process for the Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery – Statutory Consultation Plan (DOCX - 75.93 KB)
Report to Port Phillip Bay Scallops - Review of the TACC for the Dive Fishery for Scallops in Port Phillip Bay (PDF - 157.32 KB)
Report to Port Phillip Bay Scallops - TACC setting – Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery – Response to Consultation Paper (PDF - 207.69 KB)

The call for public comments is open from 8 September 2015 until 8 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.