New Zealand Gazette – 2005 – No. 184

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✨ Fisheries Definitions



4 NOVEMBER 2005

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 184

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“skin-on untrimmed fillets” in relation to hoki and ling, means 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

(iv) the dorsal and ventral cuts being made adjacent to the dorsal and ventral
midlines of the fish; and

(v) the hypaxial and epaxial lines present along the full length of the fillet; and

(vi) the skin on

“surimi” or fish paste means a processed form of fish that has been headed and gutted,
skinned, deboned, minced, and washed, whether or not it has been chemically stabilised

“tentacles”, in relation to squid or octopus, means the state in which the head, mantle and all
internal organs have been removed and discarded

“ventral midline” means the line where the medial plane intersects the ventral surface of the
body

“wet 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, prior to any drying or other processing of the
pectoral fins, dorsal fin and the lower lobe of the caudal fin

“wings”, in relation to skates and rays, means the pectoral fins severed from the body by a cut
no further back than the spiracle, proceeding parallel to the edge of the gill openings,
then proceeding down the side of the gut cavity, and exiting at the joint between the
pectoral fin (being the wing flap) and the pelvic fin (being the next lobe on the body),
and the skin on.

  1. Removal of parasites—For any fillet state in this Notice, parasites may be removed.


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