Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01041:body:0:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01041
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 26458–28965

grant of more than 1 statutory fishing right.
22 Obligations on the holders of fishing concessions
 (1) The holder of a statutory fishing right must:
 (c) give to AFMA any biological, economic and technical data available to the holder if AFMA requests it; and
 (e) comply with this plan; and
 (ea) comply with any by‑catch action plan to make sure that the incidental catch of any species that the holder is not entitled to take, except as by‑catch, is kept to a minimum; and
 (f) comply with all other conditions to which the statutory fishing right is subject; and
 (g) if the boat that is nominated on the holder's certificate of a Class B statutory fishing right is not required, under a law in force in a State or Territory, to display an identifying mark or number — cause the registration number of the boat's Class B statutory fishing right to be displayed on the boat; and
 (h) make sure that a nominated boat does not receive prawns or by‑catch taken by another boat, unless each container of the prawns or by‑catch has attached to it a written statement, capable of being read on its arrival at a processing plant, showing:
 (i) the name of the boat that took the prawns or by‑catch; and
 (ii) the date when the prawns or by‑catch were taken; and
 (iii) the date when the container was received on the boat.

 (2) The holder of a gear or top up statutory fishing right who is engaged in commercial fishing in the Northern Prawn Fishery area:
 (a) must not use, for the method being employed, prawn trawl nets having an operational headrope length, in total, greater than that allowed by the gear or top up statutory fishing rights nominated for the boat; and
 (b) must not use, or have on board the boat, a prawn trawl net with an operational headrope length that is greater than half of the operational headrope length that the gear or top up statutory fishing rights nominated for the boat allow the holder to use (the maximum operational headrope length).
 (3) However, the holder may also use 1 try net.
 (4) Also, the holder may have on board the boat a prawn trawl net with an operational headrope length that is greater than the maximum operational headrope length if:
 (a) the holder is carrying the net on a trip through the Northern Prawn Fishery area and does not intend to use the net for fishing on the trip; and
 (b) the holder has notified AFMA in writing of carriage of the net before the trip; and
 (c) the net is stowed securely during the trip.
 (5) In addition, the holder of