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« Tycraft Pty Ltd (Tridacna maxima - Giant Clam)

Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Tycraft Pty Ltd, Western Australia, January 2019

Application on ecological sustainability

About the application

The current export approval for Tycraft Pty Ltd is valid until 17 April 2019 and the operation is now due for assessment for ongoing export accreditation. The Department of the Environment and Energy received an application, Application for approval of a Wildlife Trade Operation 2019-2022, from Tycraft Pty Ltd in January 2019. The application has been prepared to address the Australian Government ‘Guidelines for the ecologically sustainable management of fisheries – 2nd edition’ and to provide updates on the implementation of recommendations made in the previous Australian Government assessment. 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 harvest operation of Tridacna maxima by Tycraft Pty Ltd in the waters of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as managed consistent with the Western Australian Fish Resources Management Act 1994, as an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act, and

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