Sustainable Fisheries

I, Ian Cresswell, Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, being satisfied that:

• The management regime for the Queensland East Coast Beche-de-mer Fishery in force under the Queensland Fisheries Act 1995 and Fisheries Regulation 1995, to the extent that the management regime is a plan of management for the Queensland East Coast Beche-de-mer Fishery, requires persons engaged in fishing under the management regime 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 regime 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 Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 and the Fisheries Regulation 1995, to the extent that the Act and the Regulation apply to the Queensland East Coast Beche-de-mer Fishery, 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.