Sustainable Fisheries

I, Ian Campbell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, being satisfied that:

• The management regime for the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery in force under the Queensland Fisheries Regulation 1995 and the Queensland Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Management Plan 1999, to the extent that the management regime is a plan of management for the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl 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 Regulation 1995 and the Queensland Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Management Plan 1999, to the extent that the Regulation and Plan apply to the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl 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.