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« Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery
Environmental Assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, August 2019

Agency application on ecological sustainability

About the application

The current export approval for the Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery is valid until 18 October 2019, and the fishery is now due for assessment for ongoing export accreditation. The Department of the Environment and Energy received an application, ‘Application to the Department of the Environment and Energy, on the Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery and the take of marine aquarium species for aquaculture broodstock purposes’ and associated documents, from the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, in August 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 Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery, as managed consistent with the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (Western Australia) and the Fish Resources Management Resources 1995 (Western Australia), 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 Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery, as managed consistent with the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (Western Australia) and the Fish Resources Management Resources 1995 (Western Australia).

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