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Approved Fish Names

Scientific, New Zealand Common, Maori, and Foreign Common Names of New Zealand Commercial Fish Species

February 2008

The attached lists are published in 2 parts for ease of use, and to reduce the file size of each single document for downloading purposes. The lists are presented in PDF and RTF to allow the search functions of the respective documents to be used.

The introduction anticipates the acceptance of new foreign names by NZFSA, and the possibility of limited discretion on the part of verifiers to allow some foreign names not listed herein to be used. Conditions and procedures for these will be published in due course, in the interim all foreign names not appearing in the attached lists must be sent to NZFSA Export Standards, via NZFSA VA, for approval prior to use.

The introduction contains a new paragraph, highlighted in yellow, regarding the use of New Zealand common names, for certification and labelling of new commercial species, of species that do not appear in the NZFSA approved list but are on the MFish website. There is a degree of commercial risk in applying this provision, since it is possible the NZFSA approved fish names list will approve a different common name for the species than what is on the MFish website.

Introduction

• Fin Fish   [Word/RTF  ]  [PDF ] 
• Non-Fin Fish  [ Word/RTF  ]    [ PDF  ]