Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015
SCHEDULE 1 - Fish speciesSCHEDULE 1 - Fish species
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SCHEDULE 1 - Fish species SCHEDULE 1 - Fish species
[Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 71, Applied:01 Nov 2023] [Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 71, Applied:01 Nov 2023] [Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 71, Applied:01 Nov 2023] [Schedule 1 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 71, Applied:01 Nov 2023]
| | Type of fish | Definition | | 1. | "albacore tuna" | means fish of the species Thunnus alalunga | | 2. | "anglerfish" | means fish of the order Lophiformes | | 3. | "Atlantic salmon" | means fish of species Salmon salar | | 4. | "Australian anchovy" | means fish of the species Engraulis australis | | 5. | "Australian salmon" | means fish of the genus Arripis | | 6. | "Australian sardine" | means fish of the species Sardinops sagax | | 7. | "Australian sprat" | means fish of the species Sprattus novaehollandiae | | 8. | "banded morwong" | means fish of the species Cheilodactylus spectabilis | | 9. | "bass" | means fish of the species Polyprion americanus | | 10. | "bass groper" | means fish of the species Polyprion moene | | 11. | "bastard trumpeter" | means fish of the species Latridopsis forsteri (also known as silver trumpeter) | | 12. | "bigeye tuna" | means fish of the species Thunnus obesus | | 13. | "bight redfish" | means fish of the species Centroberyx gerrardi | | 14. | "billfish" | means fish of the families Istophoridae and Xophiidae | | 15. | "black bream" | means fish of the species Acanthopagrus butcheri | | 16. | "black oreodory" | means fish of the species Allocyttus niger | | 17. | "blue-eye trevalla" | means fish of the species Hyperoglyphe antarctica | | 18. | "blue grenadier" | means fish of the species Macruronus novaezelandiae | | 19. | "blue groper" | means fish of the genus Achoerodus | | 20. | "blue mackerel" | means fish of the species Scomber australasicus | | 21. | "blue morwong" | means fish of the species Nemadactylus valeniennesi | | 22. | "blue shark" | means fish of the species Prionace glauca | | 23. | "bluespotted flathead" | means fish of the species Platycephalus speculator | | 24. | "bluespotted goatfish" | means fish of the species Upeneichthys vlamingii | | 25. | "blue sprat" | means fish of the species Spratelloides robustus | | 26. | "blue warehou" | means fish of the species Seriolella brama | | 27. | "boarfish" | means fish of the family Pentacerotidae | | 28. | "bream" | means fish of the genus Acanthopagrus | | 29. | "common jack mackerel" | means fish of the species Trachurus declivis | | 30. | "deepwater flathead" | means fish of the species Neoplatycephalus conatus | | 31. | "dusky morwong" | means fish of the species Dactylophora nigricans | | 32. | "elephantfish" | means fish of the species Callorhinchus milii | | 33. | "flathead" | means fish of the family Platycephalidae | | 34. | "flounder" | means fish of the families Bothidae and Pleuronectidae | | 35. | "garfish" | means fish of the family Hemiramphidae | | 36. | "gemfish" | means fish of the species Rexea solandri | | 37. | "Gould's squid" | means squid of the species Nototodarus gouldi | | 38. | "grey morwong" | means fish of the species Nemadactylus douglasii | | 39. | "gummy shark" | means fish of the species Mustelus antarcticus | | 40. | "gurnards and ocean perches" | means fish of the families Neosebastidae and Sebastidae | | 41. | "hapuku" | means fish of the species Polyprion oxygeneios | | 42. | "hardyhead" | means fish of the family Atherinidae | | 43. | "herring cale" | means fish of the family Osacidae | | 44. | "inshore crab" | means crab of the families Portunidae and Grapsidae and includes spider crab | | 45. | "invertebrate bait species" | means soldier crabs of the family Mictyridae, sand worms of the family Onuphidae, and shrimps of the suborder Nantantia | | 46. | "jackass morwong" | means fish of the species Nemadactylus macropterus (also known as perch) | | 47. | "king dory" | means fish of the species Cyttus traversi | | 48. | "king gar" | means fish of the species Scomberesox saurus | | 49. | "King George whiting" | means fish of the species Sillaginodes punctata | | 50. | "leatherjacket" | means fish of the family Monacanthidae | | 51. | "longfin pike" | means fish of the species Dinolestes lewini | | 52. | "longsnout boarfish" | means fish of the species Pentaceropsis recurvirostris | | 53. | "longtail tuna" | means fish of the species Thunnus tongol | | 54. | "luderick" | means fish of the species Girella tricuspidata | | 55. | "mackerel" | means fish of any of the following species: | | | | (a) Scomber australasicus (commonly known as blue mackerel); | | | | (b) Trachurus declivis (commonly known as common jack mackerel); | | | | (c) Trachurus murphyi (commonly known as Peruvian jack mackerel); | | | | (d) Emmelichthys nitidus (commonly known as redbait); | | | | (e) Trachurus novaezelandiae (commonly known as yellowtail scad); | | 56. | "magpie morwong" | means fish of the species Cheilodactyluc nigripes | | 57. | "mako shark" | means fish of the genus Isurus | | 58. | "marblefish" | means fish of the species Aplodactylus arctidens | | 59. | "marlin" | means fish the family Istiophoridae | | 60. | "morwong" | means fish of the family Cheilodactylidae | | 61. | "mullet" | means fish of the family Mugilidae | | 62. | "mulloway" | means fish of the species Argyrosomus hololepidotus | | 63. | "northern bluefin tuna" | means fish of the species Thunnus thynnus | | 64. | "ocean trout" | means fish of the species Salmo trutta | | 65. | "octopus" | means fish of the family Octopodidae | | 66. | "orange roughy" | means fish of the species Hoplostethus atlanticus | | 67. | "ox-eye oreodory" | means fish of the species Oreosoma atlanticum | | 68. | "pelagic shark" | means sharks of the genus Isurus and species Prionace glauca, also known as mako and blue shark, respectively | | 69. | "pink ling" | means fish of the species Genypterus blacodes | | 70. | "prawn" | means fish of the family Penaeidae | | 71. | "prowfish" | means fish of the genus Aetapcus | | 72. | "Rays bream" | means fish of the family Bramidae | | 73. | "redbait" | means fish of the species Emmelichthys nitidus | | 74. | "redfish" | means fish of the species Centroberyx affinis | | 75. | "red velvetfish" | means fish of the species Gnathanacanthus goetzeei | | 76. | "rock flathead" | means fish of the species Platycephalus laevigatus | | 76A. | "sand crab" | means crab of the species Ovalipes australiensis | | 77. | "sand flathead" | means fish of the species Platycephalus bassensis | | 78. | "scalefish" | means the following fish: | | | | (a) fish of the superclass Agnatha; | | | | (b) fish of the order Amphioxiformes; | | | | (c) fish of the superclass Pisces; | | | | (d) fish of the superclass Tetrabranchiata; | | | | (e) molluscs of the orders Sepioidea, Teuthoidea and Octopoda; | | | | (f) crustaceans of the suborder Nantantia and families Mictyridae, Portunidae and Grabsidae; | | | | (g) sandworms of the family Onuphidae; | | 79. | "school shark" | means fish of the species Galeorhinus galeus,also known as snapper shark | | 80. | "sea sweep" | means fish of the species Scorpis aequipinnus | | 81. | "shark" | means all chondrichthyan fishes | | 82. | "silver trevally" | means fish of the species Pseudocaranx dentex | | 83. | "silver warehou" | means fish of the species Seriolella punctata | | 84. | "skipjack tuna" | means fish of the species Katsuwonus pelamis | | 85. | "smooth oreodory" | means fish of the species Pseudocyttus maculatus | | 86. | "snapper" | means fish of the species Pagrus auratus | | 87. | "snook" | means fish of the species Sphyraena novaehollandiae | | 88. | "southern bluefin tuna" | means fish of the species Thunnus maccoyii | | 89. | "southern calamari" | means squid of the species Sepioteuthis australis | | 90. | "southern sea garfish" | means fish of the species Hyporhamphus melanochir | | 90A. | "spider crab" | means crab of the species Leptomithrax gaimardii | | 91. | "spiky oreodory" | means fish of the species Neocyttus rhomboidalis | | 92. | "squid" | means molluscs of the order Teuthoidea | | 93. | "striped trumpeter" | means fish of the species Latris lineata | | 94. | "swordfish" | means fish of the family Xiphiidae | | 95. | "tailor" | means fish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix | | 96. | "tiger flathead" | means fish of the species Platycephalus richardsoni | | 97. | "tuna" | means fish of the family Scombridae and tribe Thunnini | | 98. | "warehou" | means fish of the genus Seriolella | | 99. | "warty oreodory" | means fish of the species Allocyttus verrucosus | | 100. | "whiting" | means fish of the genus Sillago | | 101. | "wrasse" | means fish of the family Labridae | | 102. | "yelloweye mullet" | means fish of the species Aldrichetta forsteri | | 103. | "yelloweye redfish" | means fish of the species Centroberyx australis | | 104. | "yellowfin tuna" | means fish of the species Thunnus albacares | | 105. | "yellowfinned whiting" | means fish of the species Sillago schomburgkii | | 106. | "yellowtail kingfish" | means fish of the species Seriola lalandi |