{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-2406/annex-I/division-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-2406/annex-I/division-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1996/2406",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation(EC) No 2406/96 of 26 November 1996 laying down common marketing standards for certain fishery products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-2406",
  "path": "annex/I/division/7",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "B",
  "heading": "BLUEFISH",
  "text": ". . .\n. . .\nOr in a more advanced state of decay.\nIced fish goes rancid before stale, CSW/RSW fish goes stale before rancid.\nCriteria\nFreshness category\nNot admitted\nExtra\nA\nB\nSkin\nBright pigmentation, bright, shining iridescent colours; clear distinction between dorsal and central surfaces\nLoss of lustre and shine; duller colours; less difference between dorsal and ventral surfaces\nDull, lustreless, insipid colours; skin creased when fish curved\nVery dull pigmentation; skin coming away from flesh\nSkin mucus\nAqueous, transparent\nSlightly cloudy\nMilky\nYellowish grey, opaque mucus\nConsistency of flesh\nVery firm, rigid\nFairly rigid, firm\nSlightly soft\nSoft (flaccid)\nGill covers\nSilvery\nSilvery, slightly red or brown\nBrownish and extensive seepage of blood from vessels\nYellowish\nEye\nConvex, bulging; blue-black bright pupil, transparent ‘eyelid’\nConvex and slightly sunken; dark pupil; slightly opalescent cornea\nFlat; blurred pupil; blood seepage around the eye\nConcave in the centre; grey pupil; milky cornea\nGills\nUniformly dark red to purple. No mucus\nLess bright colour, paler at edges. Transparent mucus\nBecoming thick discoloured opaque mucus\nYellowish; milky mucus\nSmell of gills\nFresh seaweed; pungent; iodine\nNo smell or seaweed. Neutral smell\nSlightly sulphureous fatty smell, rancid bacon cuttings or rotten fruit\nRotten sour",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 20(9)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Or in a more advanced state of decay."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Iced fish goes rancid before stale, CSW/RSW fish goes stale before rancid."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1996/2406/annex/I/division/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:58:58.326793+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}