4Meaning of fish

4 Meaning of fish

(1)  Fish is any aquatic organism of any species, whether dead or alive, which, in the normal course of events, spends part or all of its life in the aquatic environment.

(2)  Fish includes –

(a) bony fishes of the class Osteichthyes; and

(b) sharks, rays, lampreys and other cartilaginous fishes of the classes Chondrichthyes and Agnatha; and

(c) aquatic reptiles; and

(d) sea squirts and other aquatic chordates; and

(e) [Section 4 Subsection (2) amended by No. 45 of 1997, s. 5, Applied:13 Nov 1997] sea-stars, sea-urchins, sea-cucumbers and other echinoderms; and

(f) lobsters, crabs, prawns and other aquatic arthropods; and

(g) bristle worms, fan worms, arrowworms and other aquatic annelids, chaetognaths, nematodes, nemerteans and platyhelminths; and

(h) squid, oysters, abalone and other aquatic molluscs and brachiopods; and

(i) [Section 4 Subsection (2) amended by No. 45 of 1997, s. 5, Applied:13 Nov 1997] seafans, sponges, corals, jelly-fish, salps and other bryozoans, poriferans, coelenterates and ctenophores; and

(j) protozoans and bacteria; and

(k) seagrass, seaweed and other aquatic vascular plants, algae, diatoms, euglenoids and any other marine plants.

(3)  A reference to fish includes –

(a) the eggs, spat, spawn, seeds, spores, larvae or other offspring of an aquatic organism; and

(b) a shell containing fish or any other part derived from an aquatic organism; and

(c) raw, cooked, dismembered, frozen, preserved, salted or otherwise processed fish; and

(d) any other saltwater product declared by the regulations to be a fish for the purpose of any provision of this Act.