" Within the meaning of the present law: 1) Fish processing establishments shall comprise: a) Fishmongering establishments which prepare fishery products, especially by sorting, washing, weighing and icing. b) Freezing establishments which preserve fish by means of freezing or simply store frozen products. c)Smoking houses or workshops which smoke fish and fishery products using wood or by-products of wood. d) Drying workshops which dehydrate fishery products through the direct action of heat produced by solar energy or some other source. e) Salting workshops which process fishery products by using exclusively sea salt or its substitutes."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
β‘ to dehydrate fishery products through the direct action of heat produced by solar energy or some other source.
β‘ Refers to the joint France-Cote dΒ΄Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.
β‘ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.
β‘ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.
β‘ processes associated with live or dead fish or fish products between the time fish are caught or harvested, and the time the final product is delivered to the customer. These involve fish preparation (fish is cleaned, part cleaned, scaled or cut up), fish decoration (fish marking, tagging, etc.), fish preservation (chilling, icing, freezing, irradiating, smoking, salting, cooking, etc.), and fish packaging (fish canning, bottling, or wrapping).
β‘ person who engages in fishing activities, or is employed or engaged in any capacity or carrying out an occupation on board any fishing vessel, including persons working on board who are paid on the basis of a share of the catch but excluding pilots, naval personnel, other persons in the permanent service of a government, shore-based persons carrying out work aboard a fishing vessel and fisheries observers.
β‘ Β any activity related to the culture, management, harvest, processing or marketing of aquatic animals (finfish, shellfish, molluscs, crustaceans, etc.) or plants (seaweeds, alga, etc.).
β‘ the act of making ice
β‘ to process fishery products by using exclusively sea salt or its substitutes.
β‘ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands
β‘ to smoke fish and fishery products using wood or by-products of wood.