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List of Exempt Native Specimens Amendment (Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rock Lobster Fishery) Instrument, August 2025

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

Date 26 August 2025   

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 (Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rock Lobster Fishery) Instrument, August 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rocklobster Fishery.

Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rocklobster Fishery

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

The specimens are included on the list until 28 August 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 Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rock Lobster Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the Fisheries Act 1994 (Qld), the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 (Qld), Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019 (Qld), Fisheries Declaration 2019 (Qld), and Fisheries Quota Declaration 2019 (Qld), 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).

Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rock Lobster Fishery

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

The specimens are included in the list until 28 August 2028.