Western Trawl Fisheries
Environmental assessment under the EPBC Act
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 28 September 2005
Commonwealth of Australia
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Accreditation of a Plan of Management for the Purposes of Part 13
I, Andrew McNee, Assistant Secretary, Marine Environment Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, being satisfied that:
- The management regime in force under the Western Trawl Fisheries Statement of Management Arrangements 2004, made under the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991, requires persons engaged in fishing under the management plan to take all reasonable steps to ensure that members of listed threatened species, listed migratory species, cetaceans and listed marine species are not killed or injured as a result of the fishing; and
- The fishery to which the management plan relates does not, or is not likely to, adversely affect:
- the survival or recovery in nature of any listed threatened species; or
- the conservation status of a listed migratory species, cetacean, or listed marine species or a population of that species,
hereby accredit the Western Trawl Fisheries Statement of Management Arrangements 2004, pursuant to sections 208A, 222A, 245 and 265 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 for the purposes of Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Part 13 of the Act.
Dated this 28th day of September 2005
[Signed]
Andrew McNee
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage
See also
- AFMA
- Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- The Australian Government
- Australian Seafood Industry Council
- Australian Antarctic Division
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