FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries - Fishing Operations - 1 Suppl. 1 - 1. Vessel Monitoring Systems













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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1998

Reprinted 1999

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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

ABSTRACT

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

BACKGROUND

1. INTRODUCTION

2. OBJECTIVES

3. CONTEXT

3.1 Compliance with Fisheries Management Rules
3.2 Collection of Fishing Catch and Effort Data, or Other Fishing Activity

4. DEFINITION OF VMS

4.1 VMS use in MCS

4.1.1 What VMS does

4.2 What VMS Does Not Do
4.3 Application of VMS

4.3.1 Suitable applications
4.3.2 Deterrent
4.3.3 Probable cause and targeted investigations
4.3.4 Targeting landing and at sea inspections
4.3.5 Increasing efficiency of surveillance patrols
4.3.6 Increasing risk for under declaration of catch

4.4 VMS Components
4.5 Satellite Surveillance
4.6 Other Surveillance Systems

5. SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

5.1 Principles
5.2 Factors Affecting Performance
5.3 Systems Descriptions

5.3.1 Inmarsat
5.3.2 Argos
5.3.3 Euteltracs

5.4 System Compatibility
5.5 User Friendliness
5.6 Proposed Future Systems
5.7 Automatic Ship Identification Systems

6. VMS OPERATIONAL/PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT

6.1 The Position Report
6.2 Vessel Speed and Course
6.3 Frequency of Position Reports
6.4 International Data Exchange Formats and Protocols
6.5 Catch and Effort Data Formats
6.6 Other Data Transmission
6.7 Beginning and End of Operation Messages
6.8 Two-way Messaging Capability

7. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR VMS EQUIPMENT

7.1 General requirements
7.2 GPS receiver/decoder
7.3 Unique identifier
7.4 Installation

8. TYPE APPROVAL PROCESS

8.1 Type Approval Questionnaire

9. SECURITY

9.1 Blocking Transmission at the Antenna

9.1.1 Defending against a blocked antenna

9.2 Disruption of power supply

9.2.1 Defending against disrupted power supply

9.3 Physical Removal of VLD

9.3.1 Discouraging physical removal of VLD

9.4 Duplication of VLD

9.4.1 Defending against cloning

9.5 Transmission of False Position

9.5.1 Defending against false position transmission

10. DATA FORMATS

10.1 The Inmarsat Position Report
10.2 Optimized VMS Position Report
10.3 Extended Format Position Report

11. CATCH REPORTING

11.1 Electronic Log Data Fields

11.1.1 Non mandatory data fields

11.2 Electronic Log Message Format

12. POLLING

13. DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN VMS OPERATORS

14. VMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

14.1 Shipboard Equipment
14.2 VMS Base Station
14.3 Telecommunications Access

15. EVALUATING THE COST/BENEFIT OF VMS

APPENDIXES

Appendix 1. Use of VMS in the Application of International Fisheries Agreements
Appendix 2. Inmarsat Maritime Position Report
Appendix 3. Optimised VMS Position Report Format
Appendix 4. International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishing Gear (ISSCFG)
Appendix 5. The FAO Geographical Grid

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