20Expenditure of effort units

20 Expenditure of effort units

(1) During each pelagic longline fishing operation conducted by the holder of a longline SFR in the fishery, the number of effort units expended is:

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branchline clips is the number of branchline clips determined under section 20A.

SAF is:

(a) the sub-area factor for the sub-area of the fishery where the operation took place, or, if the operation took place over more than 1 sub-area, the greater or greatest of the sub-area factors for those sub-areas; or

(b) if AFMA has not specified a sub-area factor – 1.

(2) Subject to section 22, an effort unit that is not expended in the fishing season for which it is allocated expires at the end of that fishing season.