Queensland East Coast Pearl Fishery
Accreditation of a Plan of Management for the Purposes of Part 13
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 16 February 2005
Commonwealth of Australia
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Accreditation of a Plan of Management for the Purposes of Part 13
I, Ian Cresswell, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Sustainable Fisheries Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, being satisfied that:
- The management regime in force under the Queensland Fisheries Regulations Act 1995 for the East Coast Pearl Fishery, made under the Fisheries Act 1994 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 East Coast Pearl Fishery management regime, 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 16th day of February 2005
Ian Cresswell
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage