04 Fishing, Hunting and Trapping
This subdivision contains the following ANZSIC groups:
041 Fishing
This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:
0411 Rock Lobster and Crab Potting
This class consists of units mainly engaged in catching rock lobsters or crabs from their natural habitats of ocean or coastal waters, using baited pots.
Primary activities
- Crab fishing or potting
- Rock lobster fishing or potting
- Saltwater crayfish fishing
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- wholesaling fresh or frozen rock lobsters are included in Class 3604 Fish and Seafood Wholesaling; and
- farming crustaceans in tanks or ponds onshore are included in Class 0203 Onshore Aquaculture.
0412 Prawn Fishing
This class consists of units mainly engaged in catching prawns from ocean or coastal waters.
Primary activities
- Prawn fishing
- Scampi fishing
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- farming prawns in onshore ponds are included in Class 0203 Onshore Aquaculture; and
- wholesaling fresh or frozen prawns are included in Class 3604 Fish and Seafood Wholesaling.
0413 Line Fishing
This class consists of units mainly engaged in line fishing in inshore, mid-depth or surface waters. This class includes units engaged in several fishing methods, including surface or bottom long lining, trolling, or hand or powered-reel fishing.
Primary activities
- Bottom long line fishing
- Line fishing
- Ocean trolling
- Squid jigging
- Surface long line fishing
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in trawling, seining or netting are included in Class 0414 Fish Trawling, Seining and Netting.
0414 Fish Trawling, Seining and Netting
This class consists of units mainly engaged in trawling, seining or netting in mid-depth to deep ocean or coastal waters using a variety of net fishing methods. Trawling methods involve one or two boats towing a very large bag net, either on the seabed or in mid-depth waters. Seining methods include purse, Danish or beach seining. Netting methods include surface or bottom gill netting.
Primary activities
- Beach seining, fishing
- Bottom gill netting, fishing
- Danish seining, fishing
- Finfish trawling
- Pair trawling
- Purse seining
- Set netting, fishing
- Surface netting, fishing
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- line fishing are included in Class 0413 Line Fishing;
- hatching or farming fish in controlled environments are included in the appropriate classes of Group 020 Aquaculture; and
- wholesaling fresh or frozen finfish are included in Class 3604 Fish and Seafood Wholesaling.
0419 Other Fishing
This class consists of units mainly engaged in fishing not elsewhere classified or in other types of marine life gathering.
Primary activities
- Abalone/paua fishing
- Freshwater eel fishing
- Freshwater fishing n.e.c.
- Marine water fishery product gathering
- Oyster catching (except from cultivated oyster beds)
- Pearling (except pearl oyster farming)
- Seaweed harvesting
- Spat catching
- Turtle hunting
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- hatching or farming seaweed, fish, crustaceans or molluscs in controlled environments are included in the appropriate classes of Group 020 Aquaculture; and
- potting for rock lobster or crabs are included in Class 0411 Rock Lobster and Crab Potting.
042 Hunting and Trapping
This group contains the following ANZSIC class:
0420 Hunting and Trapping
This class consists of units mainly engaged in hunting, trapping or taking animals, birds or reptiles in the wild for commercial, population control or pest control purposes.
Primary activities
- Bird trapping
- Buffalo hunting
- Crocodile hunting
- Culling of wild animals
- Deer hunting
- Dingo hunting or trapping
- Fur skin animal hunting or trapping
- Game preserve, commercial, operation
- Kangaroo hunting
- Mutton bird catching
- Possum hunting and trapping
- Rabbit hunting or trapping
- Snake catching
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in pest control for industrial or domestic purposes are included in Class 7312 Building Pest Control Services.