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Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, May 2021

Agency application on ecological sustainability

About the application

Export approval for the Queensland East Coast Trawl Fishery (formerly, the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery) expires on 31 August 2021. In April 2021, the Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment received an application ‘Sustainable Fisheries Strategy 2017-2027’ from the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. The application has been prepared to address the Australian Government ‘Guidelines for the ecologically sustainable management of fisheries – 2nd edition’. The application will be used to assess the operation of the fishery for the purposes of Parts 13 and 13A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

Consideration will be given to:

• declaring the Queensland East Coast Trawl Fishery, as managed consistent with the Fisheries Act 1994 and subordinate legislation including; the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019, Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019, Fisheries Declaration 2019; and Fisheries Quota Declaration 2019, as an approved wildlife trade operation, under section 303FN of the EPBC Act, and
• including in the list of exempt native specimens, specimens harvested in the Queensland East Coast Trawl Fishery, as managed consistent with the Fisheries Act 1994 and subordinate legislation including; the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019, Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019, Fisheries Declaration 2019; and Fisheries Quota Declaration 2019.

In accordance with the provisions of sections 303FR and 303DC of the EPBC Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.