New Zealand Gazette – 2005 – No. 184

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✨ Fisheries Definitions



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“minced, skin-off fillets” means,—

(a) in relation to hoki, the state in which the fish has been skin-off filleted and the
skin-off fillets rendered by a machine into a minced form:

(b) in relation to southern blue whiting, the state in which the flesh has been removed
from either side of the body of the fish from immediately behind the pectoral fin
to the tail and where the skin has been removed from that flesh, and the skin-off
fillets are rendered by a machine into a minced form

“myomeres” are segmentally arranged blocks of muscle in the bodies of fish. The term
myotome is sometimes used as a synonym for myomere

“pin bones” means a small bone in the middle of the fish fillet (intermuscular bones) and the
rib bones remaining at the anterior end of a fillet

“point of insertion of the fin” means the point along the body of a fish at which the front
(anterior) or rear (posterior) edge of a fin emerges

“rock lobster tail” means that part of a rock lobster that remains after the head and carapace,
including the internal organs and all appendages attached to the carapace, have been
removed; and “scampi tail” has a corresponding meaning

“shucked or shelled”, in relation to shellfish, means shellfish that have had the shell removed,
whether or not the viscera and gonads have been removed

“skin-off fillets” means:

(a) in relation to flatfish, being all members of the order Pleuronectiformes, a fillet
with:

(i) the anterior cut being immediately behind the pectoral fin insertion (or the
bony gill cover in those species without a pectoral fin); and

(ii) the tail cut behind the posterior base of the dorsal fin (or as far back as
practicable in those species without a caudal fin); and

(iii) the epaxial line present throughout the length of the fillet; and

(iv) the hypaxial line present from the tail cut of the fillet to the anus; and

(v) the fillet may be divided along the horizontal septum; and

(vi) all pin bones and skin removed:



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