COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Revocation of Accreditation of a Plan, Regime or Policy for the purposes of Part 13.

Accreditation of a Plan, Regime or Policy for the purposes of Part 13.

Northern Territory Aquarium Fishery, December 2022

I, Adam Sincock, Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water:

a)      revoke the accreditation of the management regime for the Northern Territory Aquarium Fishery dated 4 December 2019, and

b)      being satisfied that:

i)        the management regime for the Northern Territory Aquarium Fishery in force under the:

·         Northern Territory Fisheries Act 1988

·         Fisheries Regulations 1992 (NT)

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

ii)      the fishery to which the management regime relates does not, or is not likely to, adversely affect:

a)      the survival or recovery in nature of any listed threatened species, or

b)      the conservation status of a listed migratory species, cetacean, or listed marine species or a population of that species,

accredit the management regime for the Northern Territory Aquarium Fishery in force under the:

·         Northern Territory Fisheries Act 1988

·         Fisheries Regulations 1992 (NT)

under sections 208A, 222A, 245 and 265 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) for the purposes of Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively of Part 13 of the EPBC Act.

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

Dated this 29^th day of November 2022

Adam Sincock

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Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water