Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery
Submission for environmental assessment under the EPBC Act
Northern Territory Government Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries and Mines, 27 July 2007
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About the submission
The current export approval for the Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery is valid until 25 September 2007 and the fishery is now due for assessment for ongoing export accreditation.
The Department of the Environment and Water Resources received a submission - Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery - a Report Against the Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries, 2007 from the Northern Territory Government's Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries and Mines.
The report has been prepared to address the Australian Government Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (the Guidelines) and to provide updates on the implementation of recommendations made in the original assessment.
The submission 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 Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery as managed under the Mud Crab Fishery Management Plan 2006, in force under the Northern Territory Fisheries Act, as an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act; and
- including on the list of exempt native specimens, specimens harvested in the Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery as managed under the Mud Crab Fishery Management Plan 2006, in force under the Northern Territory Fisheries Act.
In accordance with the provisions of sections 303FR and 303DC of the EPBC Act, you were invited to comment on this proposal.
Closing date for comments was Friday 24 August 2007.
See also
- More about the Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery
- Australian Government Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (the Guidelines)
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