COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION – WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARINE AQUARIUM FISH MANAGED FISHERY, OCTOBER 2019
I, LOUISE VICKERY, Assistant Secretary, Environment Approvals and Wildlife Trade 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 (EPBC Act) the application from the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development 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 operations for the harvesting of specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, taken in the Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (Western Australia) and Fish Resources Management Regulations 1995 (Western Australia), or under the authority of an Exemption granted in accordance with Section 7 of the Western Australian Fish Resources Management Act 1994, but not including:
(a) specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 209 of the EPBC Act (Australia’s List of Migratory Species), except for specimens takin in state waters, or
(b) specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 248 of the EPBC Act (Australia’s List of Marine Species), except for specimens taken in state waters, or
(c) specimens that belong to eligible listed threatened species, as defined under section 303BC of the EPBC Act, or
(d) specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia’s CITES List), except for specemins that belong to taxa listed in Schedule 2.
to be an approved wildlife trade operation, in accordance with subsection 303FN(2) and paragraph 303FN(10)(d), for the purposes of the EPBC Act.
Unless amended or revoked, this declaration:
a) is valid until 14 October 2022 and;
b) is subject to the conditions applied under section 303FT specified in Schedule 1.
Dated this 14 th day of October 2019
………….…….……Louise Vickery………………………
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment
A person whose interests are affected by this declaration may, within 28 days, make an application in writing to the Department of the Environment and Energy for the reasons for the decision.
An application for independent review of the decision (under section 303GJ(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), on payment of the relevant fee by the applicant, either within 28 days of receipt of the reasons for the decision, or within 28 days of this declaration if reasons for the decision are not sought. Applications should be made to the Deputy Registrar, AAT in your Capital City. Please visit the AAT’s website at http://www.aat.gov.au/ for further information.
You may make an application under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) to access documents relevant to this decision. For further information, please visit http://www.environment.gov.au/foi/index.html.
Further enquiries should be directed to the Director, Wildlife Trade Assessments Section, Department of the Environment and Energy, Telephone: (02) 6274 1917 Email: sustainablefisheries@environment.gov.au.
SCHEDULE 1
ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS (section 303FT)
Relating to the harvesting of fish specimens that are, or are derived from, fish or invertebrates, other than specimens of species listed under Part 13 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), except for specimens collected in state waters, taken in the Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery subject to the following condition(s):
1. Operation of the WA Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery will be carried out in accordance with the management regime under the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (Western Australia) and the Fish Resources Management Regulations 1995 (Western Australia).
2. The Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to inform the Department of the Environment and Energy of any intended material changes to the Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery management arrangements that may affect the assessment against which Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 decisions are made.
3. The Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to produce and present reports to the Department of the Environment and Energy annually as per Appendix B of the ‘Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries - 2nd Edition’.
4. The Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to:
a) continue to limit harvest of CITES listed species, according to current non-detriment findings, for each species or species group
b) continue to consult with the Department of the Environment and Energy, prior to a change to the management arrangements for a CITES or EPBC Act listed species being implemented.
5. The Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to:
a) consider conducting a review of the risk assessment for CITES species including coral, with consideration given to determining risk over the next five years.
b) continue to consider further research into CITES species in the context of the outcomes of the risk assessment, including species distribution and abundance, in areas of high fishing effort.
c) continue to collaborate with relevant stakeholders, to conduct research and provide outcomes of research projects, to the Department of the Environment and Energy, when outcomes are finalised. Outcomes should also be made publicly available.
SCHEDULE 2
| Coral |
| Acanthastrea bowerbanki | Acanthastrea echinata | Acanthastrea hemprichii | Acanthastrea hillae | Acanthastrea lordhowensis |
| Acropora abrolhosensis | Acropora abrotanoides | Acropora aculeus | Acropora acuminata | Acropora anthocercis |
| Acropora aspera | Acropora austera | Acropora brueggemanni | Acropora bushyensis | Acropora cardenae |
| Acropora caroliniana | Acropora cerealis | Acropora clathrata | Acropora cytherea | Acropora danai |
| Acropora dendrum | Acropora digitifera | Acropora divaricata | Acropora donei | Acropora elseyi |
| Acropora exquisita | Acropora florida | Acropora formosa | Acropora gemmifera | Acropora glauca |
| Acropora grandis | Acropora granulosa | Acropora horrida | Acropora humilis | Acropora hyacinthus |
| Acropora indiana | Acropora insignis | Acropora intermedia | Acropora kimbeensis | Acropora latistella |
| Acropora listeri | Acropora loisetteae | Acropora longicyathus | Acropora lovelli | Acropora lutkeni |
| Acropora microclados | Acropora microphthalma | Acropora millepora | Acropora monticulosa | Acropora nana |
| Acropora nasuta | Acropora nobilis | Acropora ocellata | Acropora palifera | Acropora palmerae |
| Acropora papillare | Acropora polystoma | Acropora pulchra | Acropora robusta | Acropora rosaria |
| Acropora russelli | Acropora samoensis | Acropora sarmentosa | Acropora selago | Acropora seriata |
| Acropora solitaryensis | Acropora spathulata | Acropora spicifera | Acropora stoddarti | Acropora striata |
| Acropora subglabra | Acropora subulata | Acropora tenuis | Acropora tortuosa | Acropora turaki |
| Acropora valenciennesi | Acropora valida | Acropora vaughani | Acropora verweyi | Acropora willisae |
| Acropora yongei | Alveopora allingi | Alveopora catalai | Alveopora daedalea | Alveopora fenestrata |
| Alveopora gigas | Alveopora spongiosa | Alveopora tizardi | Alveopora verrilliana | Astreopora expansa |
| Astreopora gracilis | Astreopora myriophthalma | Astreopora ocellata | Australomussa rowleyensis | Balanophyllia bairdiana |
| Balanophyllia buccina | Balanophyllia carinata | Balanophyllia cornu | Balanophyllia elliptica | Balanophyllia generatrix |
| Balanophyllia gigas | Balanophyllia imperialis | Barabattoia amicorum | Blastomussa merleti | Blastomussa wellsi |
| Catalaphyllia jardinei | Caulastraea curvata | Caulastraea tumida | Coscinaraea columna | Coscinaraea exesa |
| Coscinaraea marshae | Coscinaraea mcneilli | Cycloseris cyclolites | Cycloseris patelliformis | Cycloseris sinensis |
| Cycloseris vaughani | Cynarina lacrymalis | Cyphastrea chalcidicum | Cyphastrea microphthalma | Cyphastrea serailia |
| Dendrophyllia alcocki | Dendrophyllia arbuscula | Dendrophyllia boschmai | Desmophyllum dianthus | Diploastrea heliopora |
| Duncanopsammia axifuga | Echinophyllia aspera | Echinophyllia echinata | Echinophyllia orpheensis | Echinopora ashmorensis |
| Echinopora gemmacea | Echinopora hirsutissima | Echinopora horrida | Echinopora lamellosa | Echinopora pacificus |
| Euphyllia ancora | Euphyllia cristata | Euphyllia divisa | Euphyllia glabrescens | Euphyllia paraancora |
| Favia favus | Favia helianthoides | Favia laxa | Favia lizardensis | Favia matthaii |
| Favia maxima | Favia pallida | Favia rotumana | Favia rotundata | Favia speciosa |
| Favia stelligera | Favia truncatus | Favia veroni | Favites abdita | Favites chinensis |
| Favites complanata | Favites flexuosa | Favites halicora | Favites paraflexuosa | Favites pentagona |
| Favites russelli | Favites stylifera | Fungia concinna | Fungia costulata | Fungia curvata |
| Fungia cyclolites | Fungia distorta | Fungia fragilis | Fungia fungites | Fungia granulosa |
| Fungia horrida | Fungia klunzingeri | Fungia patelliformis | Fungia paumotensis | Fungia repanda |
| Fungia scruposa | Fungia scutaria | Fungia sinensis | Fungia tenuis | Galaxea astreata |
| Galaxea fascicularis | Goniastrea aspera | Goniastrea australensis | Goniastrea edwardsi | Goniastrea favulus |
| Goniastrea palauensis | Goniastrea pectinata | Goniastrea retiformis | Goniopora columna | Goniopora djiboutiensis |
| Goniopora eclipsensis | Goniopora lobata | Goniopora minor | Goniopora norfolkensis | Goniopora pandoraensis |
| Goniopora pendulus | Goniopora somaliensis | Goniopora stokesi | Goniopora stutchburyi | Goniopora tenuidens |
| Herpolitha limax | Hydnophora exesa | Hydnophora microconos | Hydnophora pilosa | Hydnophora rigida |
| Leptastrea bottae | Leptastrea inaequalis | Leptastrea pruinosa | Leptastrea purpurea | Leptastrea transversa |
| Leptoria phrygia | Leptoseris explanata | Leptoseris foliosa | Leptoseris hawaiiensis | Leptoseris mycetoseroides |
| Leptoseris scabra | Leptoseris striata | Leptoseris yabei | Lithophyllon mokai | Lithophyllon undulatum |
| Lobophyllia corymbosa | Lobophyllia diminuta | Lobophyllia hataii | Lobophyllia hemprichii | Lobophyllia pachysepta |
| Merulina ampliata | Merulina scabricula | Micromussa amakusensis | Micromussa diminuta | Montastrea annuligera |
| Montastrea colemani | Montastrea curta | Montastrea magnistellata | Montastrea valenciennesi | Montipora aequituberculata |
| Montipora angulata | Montipora australiensis | Montipora calcarea | Montipora caliculata | Montipora capricornis |
| Montipora crassituberculata | Montipora danae | Montipora digitata | Montipora efflorescens | Montipora floweri |
| Montipora foliosa | Montipora foveolata | Montipora grisea | Montipora hispida | Montipora hoffmeisteri |
| Montipora incrassata | Montipora informis | Montipora millepora | Montipora mollis | Montipora monasteriata |
| Montipora nodosa | Montipora orientalis | Montipora peltiformis | Montipora spongodes | Montipora spumosa |
| Montipora stellata | Montipora tuberculosa | Montipora turgescens | Montipora turtlensis | Montipora undata |
| Montipora venosa | Montipora verrucosa | Moseleya latistellata | Mycedium elephantosus | Mycedium mancaoi |
| Oulophyllia crispa | Oulophyllia benettae | Oxypora glabra | Oxypora lacera | Pachyseris rugosa |
| Pachyseris speciosa | Palauastrea ramosa | Pavona cactus | Pavona clavus | Pavona decussata |
| Pavona duerdeni | Pavona explanulata | Pavona maldivensis | Pavona varians | Pavona venosa |
| Pectinia lactuca | Pectinia paeonia | Pectinia teres | Platygyra daedalea | Platygyra lamellina |
| Platygyra pini | Platygyra ryukyuensis | Platygyra sinensis | Platygyra verweyi | Plerogyra sinuosa |
| Plesiastrea versipora | Pocillopora damicornis | Pocillopora eydouxi | Pocillopora meandrina | Pocillopora verrucosa |
| Pocillopora woodjonesi | Polyphyllia talpina | Porites annae | Porites aranetai | Porites australiensis |
| Porites cylindrica | Porites eridani | Porites evermanni | Porites heronensis | Porites lichen |
| Porites lobata | Porites lutea | Porites murrayensis | Porites nigrescens | Porites rus |
| Porites solida | Porites stephensoni | Porites vaughani | Psammocora contigua | Psammocora digitata |
| Psammocora explanulata | Psammocora haimeana | Psammocora profunacella | Psammocora superficialis | Scapophyllia cylindrica |
| Scolymia australis | Seriatopora caliendrum | Seriatopora hystrix | Seriatopora stellata | Stylophora pistillata |
| Symphyllia agaricia | Symphyllia radians | Symphyllia recta | Symphyllia valenciennesii | Symphyllia wilsoni |
| Trachyphyllia geoffroyi | Tubastraea coccinea | Tubastraea diaphana | Turbinaria bifrons | Turbinaria conspicua |
| Turbinaria frondens | Turbinaria mesenterina | Turbinaria patula | Turbinaria peltata | Turbinaria radicalis |
| Turbinaria reniformis | Turbinaria stellulata | | | |
| Giant Clams | Other | Seahorses | | |
| Tridacna squamosa | Live Rock | H. angustus | | |
| Tridacna maxima | Cladiella australis | H. elongatus | | |
| | Clavularia viridis | H. tuberculatus | | |
| | Lobophytum sp. | | | |
| | Protopalythoa spp. | | | |
| | Ricordea spp. | | | |
| | Sarcophyton spp. | | | |