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FISHERIES REGULATIONS - REG 62

Labelling of fish

    (1)     The holder of a licence shall ensure that a label or tag is placed on a fish processed for sale under the licence, or, where processed fish or aquatic life is packaged for sale under the licence, placed on or inside that package, containing particulars, clearly printed in letters of uniform size, including:

        (a)     the number of the person's licence;

        (b)     the accepted common name of the contents; and

        (c)     in the case of fish, other than fish processed to become a trunk, a description of the type of fish and the method used to process and preserve it.

    (2)     Where a fish has been processed for sale to become a trunk and the trunk is not in a package, a tag shall be attached to that trunk displaying the number of the licence under which the fish was processed and a description by the accepted common name of the type of the fish.

    (3)     Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply to the sale of fish or aquatic life as a prepared meal.

    (4)     A Bait Net Fishery licensee shall label all fish or aquatic life in his or her possession, other than fish or aquatic life to be used by the licensee as bait for the purposes of amateur fishing by the licensee, with the words "not for human consumption".

    (5)     A licensee shall not affix a label or tape over another label or tape.



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