New Zealand Gazette – 2014 – No. 115

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✨ Fisheries Notice



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 115

26 SEPTEMBER 2014

Fisheries (Conversion Factors) Notice 2014 (Notice No: MPI 392)

Pursuant to section 188 of the Fisheries Act 1996, and after meeting all consultation requirements, the Director Fisheries Management, Ministry for Primary Industries (acting under delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1988), gives the following notice:

Notice

  1. Title—This notice is the Fisheries (Conversion Factors) Notice 2014.

  2. Commencement—This notice comes into force on 1 October 2014.

  3. Revocation—The Fisheries (Conversion Factors) Notice 2011, published as a Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 14 October 2011, No. 157, page 4467, is revoked.

  4. Interpretation—In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires,

    • "belly" or abdomen, is that part of the fish that encloses the abdominal organs
    • "belly-flap" means that part of the belly between the anterior cut and the anus
    • "caudal peduncle" means the narrow part of the fish body immediately anterior to the caudal fin
    • "crab legs", in relation to giant spider crab, king crab and red crab, means those parts of the crab that remain after the body and carapace, including the internal organs, have been removed
    • "de-fat fillets", in relation to hoki, means a skin-off trimmed fillet from which the primary fat line has been removed
    • "dorsal midline" means the line where the medial plane, which divides the body into left and right halves for most species, intersects the dorsal surface of the body
    • "dressed",
      • (a) means in relation to all species of finfish not otherwise listed in paragraphs (b) to (f) below, the body of a fish from which the head and gut have been removed with:
        • (i) the anterior cut being a straight line passing immediately behind the posterior insertions of both pectoral fins; 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) if the tail has been removed, no part of the tail cut shall be forward of the posterior base of either the hindmost dorsal fin or the hindmost anal fin, whichever is nearer the caudal fin; and
        • (iv) the belly-flap either intact or divided along the ventral midline:
      • (b) means in relation to hoki, ling, rattails, frostfish and eels (being all fish in the Order Anguilliformes), the body of a fish from which the head and gut have been removed with:
        • (i) the anterior cut being a straight line passing immediately behind the posterior insertions of both pectoral fins; 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) if the tail has been removed, no part of the tail cut forward of a line drawn perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fish where the vertical depth of


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