COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, TANIA RISHNIW, Assistant Secretary, Tropical Marine Conservation Branch, as Delegate of the  Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by including in the list the following:

• Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act, taken in the New South Wales Ocean Trap and Line Fishery, as defined in the Fishery Management Strategy for the Ocean Trap and Line Fishery made under the New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994.

with a notation that inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject to the following restrictions or conditions:

• The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully; and

• The specimens are included on the list until 27 November 2009.

Dated this   24   day of July 2009

………....…Tania Rishniw..………..……

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts