✨ Fisheries Conversion Factors Notice
26 SEPTEMBER 2014 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 115 3251
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 belly-flap either intact or divided along the ventral midline:
(c) means in relation to all species of sharks and ghost sharks (including elephant fish), the body of a fish from which the head, gut, and fins 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) no part of the tail cut forward of the posterior base of the anal fin, or in ghost sharks, elephant fish and those species without an anal fin, forward of the posterior base of the second dorsal fin; and
(iv) the belly-flap may be removed by a cut, no part of which is dorsal to the cartilaginous backbone:
(d) in relation to flatfish, being all members of the order Pleuronectiformes, and all skates and rays, is a state not included in this Notice:
(e) means in relation to squid, the tube (or mantle) and fins, with the head, tentacles, gladius (pen) and internal organs removed:
(f) means in relation to southern blue whiting, the body of a fish from which the head and gut have been removed with:
(i) the anterior cut being a straight line passing forward of the anterior insertion of the first dorsal fin; and
(ii) if the tail has been removed, no part of the tail cut shall be forward of the posterior base of the third dorsal fin:
“dressed-straight cut”, in relation to stargazer, means the state in which—
(a) the fish has been gutted; and
(b) the head and pectoral fins have been removed by a straight transverse cut immediately behind the posterior edge of the gill covers
“dressed-v cut”, in relation to stargazer, means the state in which—
(a) the fish has been gutted; and
(b) the head and pectoral fins have been removed by a contour cut that follows the shape of the skull, which starts immediately posterior of the gill covers and proceeds forward to a point directly behind the skull
“epaxial line” means, in a fish fillet, a line drawn through the posterior angles of the ‘V’s formed by the myomeres in the upper (epaxial) major muscle mass
“fillets - skin-on” means, —
(a) 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
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