124Meaning of “seafood business”

124 Meaning of “seafood business”

124 Meaning of “seafood business”

(1) In the seafood safety scheme, seafood business means a business involving the handling of seafood, including the carrying on of any of the following activities—

(a) cultivating, harvesting or collecting shellfish,

(b) depuration or wet storage of shellfish,

(c) cultivating spat,

(d) processing seafood, including canning, cooking, filleting, gilling and gutting, high pressure processing, shucking, skinning, smoking and preserving,

(e) packaging seafood,

(f) storing seafood,

(g) transporting seafood, except transporting seafood from retail premises to the consumer or in a vehicle from which the seafood will be sold by retail,

(h) wholesaling seafood.

(2) For the seafood safety scheme, a seafood business—

(a) does not include—

(i) the act of taking or catching fin fish, crustacea or cephalopods, and

(ii) handling live lobsters, crayfish, abalone, crabs or sea urchins, and

(iii) retail sale of seafood, and

(b) does include handling of fin fish, crustacea or cephalopods immediately after the fin fish, crustacea or cephalopods are taken or caught, whether the handling occurs on board a vessel or otherwise.