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List of Exempt Native Specimens Amendment (South Australian Blue Crab Fishery) Instrument, June 2025

I, JESSICA HOEY, Director, Sustainable Fisheries Section, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

13 June 2025    

JESSICA HOEY

Jessica Hoey

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water


1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

List of Exempt Native Specimens Instrument 2001

 


 

  This instrument is the List of Exempt Native Specimens Amendment (South Australian Blue Crab Fishery) Instrument, June 2025.

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

  This instrument is made under subsection 303DC(1)(a) of the EPBC Act.

  In this instrument:

  EPBC Act means the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

  1.         Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals

Omit the following rows in the table:
 

Taxon/Item

Common Name

Notation

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 South Australian Blue Crab Fishery.

 

South Australian Blue Crab Fishery

The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully;
The specimens are included on the list until 25 July 2025.

2  Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals

Insert the following rows in the appropriate place in the table
 

Taxon/Item

Common Name

Notation

Specimens that are or are derived from invertebrates taken in the South Australian Blue Crab Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the Fisheries Management Act 2007 (SA), Fisheries Management (Blue Crab Fishery) Regulations 2013 (SA), and the Fisheries Management (General) Regulations 2017 (SA) but not including:

  1.     specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 209 of the EPBC Act (Australia’s List of Migratory Species), or
  2.    specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 248 of the EPBC Act (Australia’s List of Marine Species), or
  3.     specimens that belong to eligible listed threatened species, as defined under section 303BC of the EPBC Act, or
  4.     specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia’s CITES List).

South Australian Blue Crab Fishery

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

Approval for specimens of invertebrates taken in the South Australian Blue Crab Fishery to be included in the List of Exempt Native Specimens has been provided on the basis the fishery will be managed in accordance with the management regime in force under the Fisheries Management Act 2007 (SA), Fisheries Management (Blue Crab Fishery) Regulations 2013 (SA), and the Fisheries Management (General) Regulations 2017 (SA). During the term of the approval, the South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regions must:

  1.     Consistent with Appendix B of the Guidelines for the ecologically sustainable management of fisheries – 2nd edition, provide the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (the department) with an annual report by 13 June each year.
  2.     In the interim, if there are any intended changes to legislative instruments or material changes to management arrangements that may affect the basis on which the approval was made for this fishery, the department must be notified.

The specimens are included in the list until 13 June 2035.