New Zealand Gazette – 2005 – No. 184

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4620 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 184 4 NOVEMBER 2005

(i) the head and guts to be removed;

(ii) no other part of the tube, including the fins, may be removed through
processing

“dressed-straight cut”, in relation to stargazer, means the state in which—

(a) the fish has been gutted; and

(b) the part of the body that includes the head and pectoral fin has been removed by a
straight traverse cut close behind the posterior edge of the gill covers

“dressed-v cut”, in relation to stargazer, means the state in which—

(a) the fish has been gutted; and

(b) the part of the body that includes the head and pectoral fin has been removed by a
contour cut that follows the shape of the skull, which starts at the posterior of the
gill covers and proceeds forward to a point directly behind the skull

“dried fins”, in all cases of blue, mako and porbeagle shark, means the state in which the
head, body and all internal organs, other than the pectoral fins, dorsal fin and the lower
lobe of the caudal fin have been discarded and the pectoral fins, dorsal fin and the lower
lobe of the caudal fin have been rendered into a dried form or processed in any other
way and where the moisture content of the shark fin does not exceed 18% by weight

“epaxial line” means, in a fish fillet, a line drawn through the posterior angles of the ‘V’s
formed by the myomeres in the upper (epaxial) major muscle mass

“fillets - skin-on” means, —

(a) in relation to rattails (being all fish in the family Macrouridae), and eels (being all
fish in the Order Anguilliformes), a fillet with:

(i) the anterior cut being a continuous straight line passing immediately behind
    the pectoral fin insertion; and

(ii)    the forward angle of the anterior cut not less than 90 degrees in relation to
    the longitudinal axis of the fish; and

(iii) no part of the tail cut forward of a line drawn perpendicular to the
    longitudinal axis of the fish where the vertical depth of the body of the fish
    is 60mm, or a line drawn perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fish at
    the anus, if the vertical depth of the body is less than 60mm at that line; and


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