New Zealand Gazette – 2014 – No. 115

Page 3255

✨ Fisheries Conversion Factors Notice



26 SEPTEMBER 2014 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 115 3255

“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 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

(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 horizontal septum and epaxial line present along the full length of the fillet; and

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

(vi) the skin removed:

(d) in relation to all species of finfish not covered in paragraphs (a) to (c), 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 the posterior base of either the hindmost dorsal fin or the hindmost anal fin, whichever is nearer the caudal fin; and

(iv) the epaxial line and horizontal septum present along the full length of the fillet; and



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