Fish - meaning and illustration

fish includes all species of bony fish, sharks, rays, crustaceans, molluscs and other marine organisms, but does not include marine mammals or marine reptiles.

✏️ Source -- Australia Fisheries Management Act 1991, Part 1, Sub-section 4 ( Australia Fisheries Management Act 1991 )

(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. 

✏️ Source -- New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994, Part 1, Section 5 ( New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994 )

fish means any fish indigenous to New South Wales.

✏️ Source -- New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994, Part 7, Section 220B ( New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994 )

Fish means an animal (whether living or dead) of a species that throughout its life cycle usually lives—

• (a)in water (whether freshwater or saltwater); or
• (b)in or on foreshores; or
• (c)in or on land under water.

✏️ Source -- Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, Part 1, Section 5, Sub-section 1 ( Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 )

Fish includes—

• (a)prawns, crayfish, rock lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans; and
• (b)scallops, oysters, pearl oysters and other molluscs; and
• (c)sponges, annelid worms and holothurians; and
• (d)trochus and green snails.

✏️ Source -- Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, Part 1, Section 5, Sub-section 2 ( Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 )

Fish also includes—

• (a)the spat, spawn and eggs of fish; and
• (b)any part of fish or of spat, spawn or eggs of fish; and
• (c)treated fish, including treated spat, spawn and eggs of fish; and
• (d)coral, coral limestone, shell grit or star sand; and
• (e)freshwater or saltwater products declared under a regulation to be fish.

✏️ Source -- Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, Part 1, Section 5, Sub-section 4 ( Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 )

fish includes

• (a) parts of fish,

• (b) shellfish, crustaceans, marine animals and any parts of shellfish, crustaceans or marine animals, and

• (c) the eggs, sperm, spawn, larvae, spat and juvenile stages of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine animals; (poissons)

✏️ Source -- Canada Fisheries Act, Section 2 ( Canada Fisheries Act )

fish includes

• (a) any part or derivative of a fish,

• (b) shellfish, crustaceans, marine animals and any part or derivative of any of them, and

• (c) the eggs, sperm, spawn, larvae, spat or juvenile stages, as the case may be, of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine animals; (poisson)

✏️ Source -- Coastal Fisheries Protection Act, Section 2 ( Coastal Fisheries Protection Act )

"fish" includes a living aquatic organism, plant or animal, and a fin-fish, shellfish, coral, reptile and marine mammal, but does not include aquatic birds;

✏️ Source -- Ghana Fisheries Act, 2002, Part VI, Section 140 ( Ghana Fisheries Act, 2002 )

“fish” means any marine or aquatic animal or plant, living or not and processed or not, and any of their parts and includes any shell, coral, reptile and marine mammal;

✏️ Source -- Kenya Fisheries Management and Development Act, 2016, Part I, Section 2 ( Kenya Fisheries Management and Development Act, 2016 )

"Fish" means the aquatic resources of the sea, inland waters and the shores, including any aquatic plant or animal whether processed or not, whether piscine or not, and any mollusc, crustacean, coral, sponge, holothunan or other echinoderm, reptile or marine mammal, and includes any part thereof, and the spat, brood, fry, spawn, ova and the young thereof;

✏️ Source -- Migori County Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, 2016, Part I, Section 3 ( Migori County Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, 2016 )

"fish" means all living aquatic animals, vertebrates and invertebrates, other than plants, which are harvestable for food and other economic purposes;

✏️ Source -- Nigeria Inland Fisheries Act, Section 16 ( Nigeria Inland Fisheries Act )

"fish" means any aquatic creature whether fish or not, and includes shell-fish, crustaceans, turtles and aquatic mammals;

✏️ Source -- Nigeria Sea Fisheries Act, 1992, Section 12 ( Nigeria Sea Fisheries Act, 1992 )

“fish” means any aquatic or marine organism, other than a bird, living or not and processed or not, and includes finfish, crustacean, mollusc, coral, echinoderm, holothurian, reptile, marine mammal and amphibious and sedentary species, and any of their parts or derivatives and includes plants to the extent they are directly essential for the habitat or survival of fish;

✏️ Source -- SEYCHELLES FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE ACT, 2025, Part 1, Section 2, Sub-section 1 ( SEYCHELLES FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE ACT, 2025 )

‘‘fish’’ means the marine living resources of the sea and the seashore, including any aquatic plant or animal whether piscine or not, and any mollusc, crustacean, coral, sponge, holothurian or other echinoderm, reptile and marine mammal, and includes their eggs, larvae and all juvenile stages, but does not include sea birds and seals;

✏️ Source -- South Africa Marine Living Resources Act, 1998, Section 1, Paragraph xiii ( South Africa Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 )

“fish” means every species of sea animal, whether vertebrate or invertebrate, including the spawn or larvae of such sea animal, excluding any seal or seabird;

✏️ Source -- South Africa Sea Fishery Act 1988, Section 1, Sub-section ix ( South Africa Sea Fishery Act 1988 )

“fish” means fish of any kind but does not, except in Part 3, include shellfish,

✏️ Source -- Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013, Section 6, Sub-paragraph 63 ( Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013 )