- Date
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19 Mar 2014
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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LUDWIG, Sen Joe
- Summary
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Amends the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: enable commercial fishing activities to be declared commercial fishing activities on an interim basis or for a period of no longer than 24 months; require written submissions of declaration affected persons to be considered before making final declarations; create penalties and offences for engaging in declared commercial fishing activities; provide for an expert panel to be established to conduct an assessment of the potential environmental impacts of declared commercial fishing activities; and require the expert panel to publish its assessments and table them in Parliament.