New Zealand Gazette – 2011 – No. 157

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✨ Fisheries Definitions



4476 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 157 14 OCTOBER 2011

“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 posterior insertion of the pectoral fin (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; and

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

(iv) the hypaxial line present from the anus to the posterior cut; and

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

(vi) all pin bones and skin removed:

(b) 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 straight line passing immediately behind the posterior insertion of the pectoral fin; 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 epaxial line and horizontal septum present along the full length of the fillet; and

(v) the hypaxial line present from the anus to the posterior cut; and

(vi) pin bones may be removed by trimming; and

(vii) the skin removed:

(c) in relation to all species of sharks and ghost sharks (including elephant fish), a fillet with:

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

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



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