Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery Management Plan 2005
32Availability of grants of longline SFRs (Act s 29 (3))
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32 Availability of grants of longline SFRs (Act s 29 (3))
(1) If a person is eligible for the grant of 1 or more longline SFRs under section 25, a grant of the number of longline SFRs calculated in accordance with this section is available to the person.
(2) If a person is eligible under subsection 25 (1), the number of longline SFRs available to the person is, for each old longline permit held by the person on 30 November 2002 that forms part of a sequence of old longline permits but is not part of a permit package:
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relative price factor, for a category of old longline permit held by a person, is the factor set out in column 4 of the item of the table in this section that corresponds to the category of the permit.
total allocation units is the sum of:
(a) the total number of old longline permits of each category (other than permits that are part of a permit package) multiplied by the relative price factor for that category; and
(b) the total number of permit packages of each category multiplied by the relative price factor for that category; and
(c) the high seas factor for each high‑seas‑only fisher, calculated under subsection (4).
(2A) If a person is eligible under subsection 25 (1), the number of longline SFRs available to the person is, for each permit package held by the person on 30 November 2002:
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relative price factor, for a category of permit package held by a person, is the factor set out in column 4 of the item of the table in this section that corresponds to the category of the package.
total allocation units has the same meaning as in subsection (2).
(3) If the person is a high‑seas‑only fisher, the number of longline SFRs is:
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high seas factor for the fisher is the factor calculated under subsection (4).
total allocation units has the same meaning as in subsection (2).
(4) For subsections (2) and (3), the high seas factor for a high‑seas‑only fisher is:
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F is the average amount received each year between 1992 and 2001 (inclusive) by the fisher for the sale of fish taken in the fishery for each 1 000 hooks set by the fisher to take the fish.