COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, PETER GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by deleting from the list the following item that was included on the list on 12 October 2004 and any associated notations:

• Pecten fumatus (Commercial Scallop) and Mimachlamys asperrima (Doughboy Scallop) taken in the Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery.

Dated this   25 day of   May   2009

………...…..……...…………Peter Garrett….……...…..……...…..……

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts