Wholesale sales dockets

Wholesale sales dockets are required when fisheries resources are sold to a buyer who:

• is engaged in the business of selling fish by wholesale or retail, and
• will resell any of the fish for trade or commerce (for example selling fish to a restaurant).

The commercial fisher in control of the fishing operation is responsible for meeting these reporting requirements.

Sales dockets must be kept for 5 years for all wholesale sales, including to businesses involved in the processing and storage of fisheries resources. The buyer must keep a record of Spanish mackerel and regulated coral reef fin fish bought outside the state for 5 years after the person stops possessing the fish.

A catch disposal record is recognised as a sales docket if the seller is the commercial fisher that caught the fish.

What to include

The requirements for wholesale sales dockets are specified in the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019.

These sales docket requirements are for the transactional point of a wholesale sale of fisheries resources that were taken by a commercial fisher acting under a primary commercial fishing licence.

For any other type of sale of fisheries resources, refer to the Regulation.

This information is required to be on a sale docket created by a commercial fisher.

Buyer details

• Name of the buyer:
  • the person engaged in the business of selling fisheries resources (by wholesale or retail) that intends to resell any of the fisheries resources for trade or commerce.
• The buyer’s accreditation number:
  • also known as the Safe Food 9-digit accreditation number required under the seafood food safety scheme (part of the Food Production Safety Regulation 2014), or
  • if the buyer is not accredited under the scheme, the address of the buyer.

Seller details

• The name of the seller.
• If the seller cultivated the fisheries resources, include the number of the approval.
• If the sale is the first time the fisheries resources are sold and a commercial fisher took the fish, include the:
  • commercial fisher’s licence number
  • primary commercial fishing licence number under which the fish were taken.

Sale date and form and quantity

• Date of the sale:
  • if the date of the sale is different to the date the fish leave the seller’s physical possession, the date the fish leave the seller’s possession.
• the form in which the fisheries resources are sold:
  • for example; live, whole, or in fillets.

Quantity

Include these details for each individual species of fish sold. All weights should be in kilograms.

Mud crab:

• number of mud crabs
• weight of the mud crab

Red champagne lobster or tropical rock lobster:

• number of whole lobsters
• number of lobster tails
• weight of the lobster

Dead fin fish - total number and weight of the fish in any of these forms:

• whole
• gilled
• gutted
• filleted
• trunked
• another form

Live fin fish:

• number of fish
• weight of the fish

Sea cucumber:

• number of containers
• weight of the sea cucumber

Fish of any other species:

• include the weight of the fish

Other requirements

There are further requirements:

• if the buyer creates the sale docket for the seller
• when the docket accompanies the fish and is available for immediate inspection.

Check the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 for full requirements for sales of fisheries resources.