COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION

I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, have considered in accordance with section 303FN of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act) the application from Tycraft Pty Ltd, public comments on the proposal as required under section 303FR, and advice on the ecological sustainability of the operation. I am satisfied on those matters specified in section 303FN of the EPBC Act. I hereby declare the operation for the harvest of Tridacna maxima from the waters of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands by Tycraft Pty Ltd in accordance with the Instrument of Exemption (No. 2353) under section 7 of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (WA)(CKI), to be an approved wildlife trade operation in accordance with section 303FN (2) and (10)(b), for the purposes of the EPBC Act.

Unless amended or revoked, this declaration:

a)                  is valid until 31 July 2015; and

b)                  is subject to the conditions applied under section 303FT specified in the Schedule.

                                                   Dated this 21st day of November 2013

…….……………………P Murphy…………..………..……

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment

SCHEDULE

Declaration of the harvest of Tridacna maxima by Tycraft Pty Ltd in the waters of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as an approved Wildlife Trade Operation, November 2013

ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS (section 303FT)

Condition 1: 

Operation of Tycraft Pty Ltd will be carried out in accordance with the management regime under the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (WA)(CKI) and the Instrument of Exemption (No. 2353) under Section 7 of this act, signed on 12 November 2013.

Condition 2:

Tycraft Pty Ltd to inform the Department of the Environment of any material changes to the legislated permit conditions that may affect the assessment against which Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 decisions are made.

Condition 3

Annual reports must be provided by Tycraft Pty Ltd to the department by 30 September each year. These reports must include:

a)      the number of Tridacna maxima harvested from the wild for broodstock

b)      details of any mortalities of broodstock, and

c)       results of mating and rearing trials and the number of specimens reared, lost through brood mortality, numbers sold and those held as stock.