Russian Monitoring System

of Fisheries and Vessels

Activities and Procedure of

Catch Certificate Control

Providing economic and food safety

Prevention of illegal fishery practises

The Main Purposes of the Russian Monitoring

of Fisheries and Vessels Activities

Conservation of the aquatic bio-resources

Providing information for international fishery cooperation

Collecting fishery scientific research data

Providing state control over fishing fleet activities

Fishery Monitoring System

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The Main Working Tasks

of the Fishery Monitoring System

• Collection and processing data of vessels location and their fishing activities;

• Collection and processing operational and statistical data of fishery enterprises activities;

• Storage data of vessels location and their fishery activities, operational and statistical data of fishery enterprises activities;

• Support of the government departments with actual reliable information of aquatic bio-resources status and fishing vessels activities;

• Increase results and effectiveness of scientific research of aquatic bio-resources status due to their information support and operative adoption and using fetched results

• Support of data exchange with government deportments on the federal and regional levels and with other institutions of national and international levels;

• Improvement of sailing safety and human life security on the sea due to exact knowledge of location rescue vessel and locations of vessels on the optimal space for help;

• Conclusion of other matters in the field of information support of using aquatic bio-resources management.

National Processing Centres Network Map of the Fishery

Monitoring and World Ocean Controlling Area

Murmansk

Moscow

Kaliningrad

Novorossiysk

Astrakhan

Saint-Petersburg

Petropavlovsk-

Kamchatskiy

Vladivostok

Yuzhno-

Sakhalinsk

Fishery Monitoring System’s (FMS) Data Flow

Regional Monitoring

Centre

Head Monitoring

Centre

FMS data

Customers of FMS data

Fisheriy enterprises

Regional Information

Centre

Inmarsat and Argos

Satellites

Satellite

providers

Data on areas of

responsibility

Regulations

Satellite position

data

Fishery

enterprises

activities data

Data on areas of

responsibility

Fishery Monitoring System’s (FMS) Data Flow in Numbers

The number of vessels

The annual number of received positions

The annual number of positions sent in accordance

with international agreements

The daily number of vessel reports

4 604

24 470 399

810 679

442 866

The number of processed operated and statistical

reports of fisheries enterprises 31 835

The number of reports forwarded to NAFO and NEAFC

4 743

The Content of Vessel’s Daily Activities Report

Vessel’s dislocation at time of transmission of report

Vessel’s status

Catch activity including time and place of gear used

Catch by species

Fish products by species

Transhipment activities

Landing in ports

Information on other cargo on board

The Operators Working Window

of the Satellite Vessels Monitoring

GPS and Inmarsat Satellite System Usage

Inmarsat

satellites

Regional Monitoring

Centre

GPS satellites

Inmarsat

Land Earth Stations

Satellite

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• Confirmation of catches certificate procedure.

• Approval of certificates for catches of aquatic resources

and fish products.

Fishery Monitoring System’s (FMS) Data Exchange

PORT STATE CONTROL

VETERINARY CONTROL OF

FISHERY PRODUCTS

• Registration of veterinary certificate for the catch

CUSTOMS CONTROL

• Checking of conformity of the declared cargo in the holds of

the vessel to the customs

declaration when registration

the entry and/or export of

fish products.

• Accounting catch by species. • Monitoring of the quotas

development.

• Operational management of the fishery.

• The IUU fishing combating. • Formation of the Russian

Federation delegations

position on the RFMO

meetings and bilateral

commissions.

MANAGEMENT OF AQUATIC

RESOURCES

• Inspector’s activities. • The identification of IUU

fishing.

• Monitoring of implementation of requirements of the

fisheries legislation.

• Determination of damage. • Providing experts

evaluations.

PROTECTION OF AQUATIC BIO-

RESOURCES

• Inventory valuation of aquatic bio-resources

and its calculation.

• Evaluation and consideration of the

effect of the intensity of

fishing to aquatic bio-

resources.

• Long-term and short-term forecasting of

fishing.

• Formation of the Russian delegation position to the

meetings of the ICES

(International Council for

the Exploration for the

Sea)

SCIENTIC RESEARCH OF

FISH STOCKS

FMS

database

Fishery Monitoring System’s (FMS) Data Exchange

State Departments Vessels and enterprises Fish science

institutions

Fishery Monitoring Centre Status of

aquatic bio-

resources

Quotas

Licenses

Regulations

Enforcement

measures

FMS

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FMS

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FMS

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Consulting and information service

The Federal Agency for Fisheries of the Russian Federation

The Map of International Cooperation of the

Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries (FAF)

Russian FAF acts under the

framework of intergovernmental

agreements relating to mutual

satellite tracking of fishing

vessels, performs day-and-

night communication with

national fishery monitoring

centers of Norway, Iceland,

Greenland, Faroe Islands and

Morocco.

.

Russian FAF cooperates with

secretariats of international

regional fisheries management

organizations, such as NAFO,

NEAFC, SPO, CCAMLR.

FMC ensures of conditions

implementation for Russian

fishing vessels in foreign

economical zones and fishing

areas under Convention

Bilateral agreements are

established

Bilateral agreements are under

development,

Japan China

S. Korea

N. Korea

Iran

Belarus

Norway

Ukraine

Mauritania

Senegal

Gambia Guinea -Bissau

Sierra Leone

Guinea -Conakry

Venezuela

Brazil

Peru

Ecuador

Nicaragua

Cuba

USA

Canada

Greenland

Iceland

Faroe Islands

Morocco

Angola

Namibia

S. Africa

European Union

International regional

fishery commissions

(organizations).

Harmonization of international efforts in the struggle against

IUU fishing

Information systems

of International

regional fishery

commissions

(organizations)

Bilateral

intergovernmental

agreements in the

field of fishery

National systems of fishery

monitoring

The FAO international plan

of activities for

counteractions to IUU fishing

Agreement on state of port

measures to prevent, deter

and eliminate IUU fishing

System of a single agreed

upon rules, formats and

protocols for exchange of

information on activities of

fishing vessels

Программы ССД и

«Портовый контроль»

CERTIFICATE

EXPORTER OF CATCHES

STATE AUTHORIZED

BODY

DATA BASE OF

FISHING LICENSES

DATA BASE

OF CATCH

VOLUMES

DATA BASE OF

SHIP DAILY REPORTS

CHECK-UP OF

TRAWLING

OPERATIONS

MAKES CHECK-UP

TO APPROVE

CATCH CERTIFICATE

RUSSIAN PROCEDURE OF CATCH CERTIFICATION IS ALMOST THE SAME

AS THE EUROPEAN CATCH CERTIFICATION SYSTEM

(ЕU REGULATION № 1005/2008 DATED 29.09.2008)

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