(1) This section applies--
(a) to each commercial fisher acting under a commercial fishing boat licence; and
(b) for using a net in a commercial fishery, other than an ocean beach fishery, for which the licence is issued.
(2) Each of the fishers is authorised under the commercial fishing boat licence to use a net in the commercial fishery--
(a) in an area around the fisher's boat within a radius equal to the length of a net the fisher is authorised to use in the fishery; and
(b) in the order in which the fishers are ready to fish with the nets in the area.