Sustainable Fisheries

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• Ecological Assessment of the South Australian Giant Crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) Fishery (PDF - 430 KB)

About the submission

The Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) has received a submission – Ecological Assessment of the South Australian Giant Crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) Fishery (dated 8 January 2007) from the Department of Primary Industries and Resources, South Australia. The report has been prepared to address the Australian Government Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (the Guidelines). 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 South Australian Giant Crab Fishery, as managed consistent with the Scheme of Management (Miscellaneous Fisheries) Regulations 2000 and the Fisheries (General) Regulations 2000 made under the Fisheries Act 1982 , 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 South Australian Giant Crab Fishery in accordance the Scheme of Management (Miscellaneous Fisheries) Regulations 2000 and the Fisheries (General) Regulations 2000 made under the Fisheries Act 1982.

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 9 February 2007.

See also

• More about the South Australian Giant Crab Fishery
• Australian Government Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (the Guidelines)