New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 5

5 Definition of “fish”

(1) In this Act, "fish" means marine, estuarine or freshwater fish or other aquatic animal life at any stage of their life history (whether alive or dead).

(2) In this Act, "fish" includes:

(a) oysters and other aquatic molluscs, and

(b) crustaceans, and

(c) echinoderms, and

(d) beachworms and other aquatic polychaetes.

(3) In this Act, "fish" also includes any part of a fish.

(4) However, in this Act, "fish" does not include whales, mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians or other things excluded from the definition by the regulations.