| Division 3 – Sale from areas under classification
States that it usually takes 2 years to classify an area for the collection or harvest for sale of bivalve molluscs for human consumption. For wild shellfish that have been collected from existing fisheries for a number of year, clause 16 and 17 will, in effect, close the fisheries until classification is complete. Also new aquaculture leases will be unable to sell shellfish for 2 years. The authority responsible for food safety should be able to allow existing wild fisheries to continue and new aquaculture operations to sell some product during the start up phase. Data collected during the first year will assist in deciding the conditions under which sales could be permitted.
Suggests clauses 16 and 17 be amended by adding: ‘(d) is undergoing classification and has the approval of the appropriate authority, subject to specified conditions’.
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