New Zealand Gazette – 2005 – No. 184

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✨ Fisheries Regulations



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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 184

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(b) in relation to hake, the body of a fish from which the head, gut and tail have been
removed with:

(i) the anterior cut being a continuous straight line passing forward of both
anterior pectoral fin insertions and both pectoral fins present; and

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

(iii) the tail removed. No part of the tail cut shall be forward of the posterior
base of the anal fin; and

(iv) the skin-on

"horizontal septum" means the horizontal line of connective tissue running centrally along the
length of a fish fillet and separating the muscle into the upper (epaxial) and lower
(hypaxial) masses

"hypaxial line" means, in a fish fillet, a line drawn through the posterior angles of the ‘V’s’
formed by the myomeres in the lower (hypaxial) major muscle mass

"livers", in relation to all species of shark, skate, or ray, means the state in which the head,
body, and all internal organs, other than the liver, have been discarded

"longitudinal axis", means—

(a) with respect to fish of the class Osteichthyes, means a straight line that passes
through the tip of the snout (the anterior edge of the upper jaw, or the anteriormost part of the head if the jaw is subterminal) and the last vertebra, unless
otherwise specified:

(b) with respect to fish of the class Chondrichthyes, means a straight line that passes
through the tip of the snout and the first vertebra posterior to the second dorsal fin,
unless otherwise specified

"minced, headed and gutted", in relation to hoki, means the state in which—

(a) the fish has been headed and gutted; and

(b) the headed and gutted fish has been rendered by a machine into a minced form;
and

(c) the skin and frame have been mealed



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