SCHEDULE 4 - Scallop measurements

Rule 3(1) and rules 9 and 10

PART 1 - Minimum size and meaning of scallop spat

1.    Minimum size specified

Unless the Minister, by published notice, determines otherwise for a type of scallop, or for a type of scallop in relation to a part of the scallop fishery, the minimum size for a scallop is taken to be –

(a) for a queen scallop ( Equichlamys bifrons ), a scallop that is 100 millimetres at its widest part; or

(b) for a commercial scallop ( Pecten fumatus ) if taken or possessed for non-commercial purposes, a scallop that is 100 millimetres at its widest part; or

(c) for a commercial scallop ( Pecten fumatus ) if taken or possessed for commercial purposes, a scallop that is 90 millimetres at its widest part; or

(d) for a doughboy scallop ( Mimachlamys asperrima ), a scallop that is 85 millimetres at its widest part.

2.    Meaning of scallop spat

In these rules –

scallop spat means a scallop that is less than 40 millimetres at its widest part.

3.    Meaning of widest part of scallop

For the purpose of clauses 1 and 2 , the widest part of a scallop is taken to be the measurement along a straight line, generally parallel with the shell hinge, representing the widest part of the body of the shell, as shown in the diagrams which are set out, by way of illustration only, in Part 2 of this Schedule.

PART 2 - Scallop diagrams