83   Priority between commercial fishers using nets in inland waters

The rights of priority in the setting of nets in inland waters between commercial fishers working on the same recognised fishing ground are determined as follows:

(a)  the first turn belongs to the commercial fisher who, with lawful nets, first arrives at the point on the bank from which it is intended that those nets are to be set,

(b)  the next turn is to belong to the commercial fisher who next so arrives, and so on,

(c)  during a commercial fisher’s turn, the fisher is to have the exclusive right of setting nets in so much of the inland waters as equals in metres measured from the point referred to in paragraph (a), the product of the number of nets the fisher is using or intends to use and 100, subject to the following:

(i)  the point from which that measurement is made must be not less than 100 metres from any net set by and belonging to any other commercial fisher,

(ii)  the maximum length of the inland waters to which any fisher is entitled in accordance with this clause is to be 1,600 metres,

(iii)  no fisher is to be entitled to set any net within 100 metres of any net set by any other commercial fisher in accordance with this clause,

(d)  a turn must not exceed 24 hours at the expiration of which the nets must, if another commercial fisher is waiting that fisher’s turn with lawful nets ready to set, be removed from the water on to the bank,

(e)  no commercial fisher is to have a second turn until all the other commercial fishers on the fishing ground with lawful nets have had their first turn.