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Title: Regulations on the Management and Guidance of the Equipment for Vessel Position Reporting, Catch Reporting, Navigational Chart, and Monitoring Center Ch
Date: 2017.01.19
Legislative: The entire text of 7 Articles enacted and promulgated on 19
January 2017 by the Council of Agriculture, the Executive Yuan
under Order No. Nung-yu-tzu 1061332055.
Content:
Article 1
These Regulations are established pursuant to Article 9, 
paragraph 2 of the Act for Distant Water Fisheries.
 
Article 2
The automatic location communicator (ALC) installed onboard any 
fishing vessel of distant water fisheries shall meet the 
following specifications:
(1) The ALC shall have a built-in global positioning system 
(GPS), be tampered proof, and be proof against any attempt of 
manual entry of position data.
(2) The ALC shall have a single antenna used for both GPS and 
ALC. In case that the antenna is mounted outside the housing 
of the ALC, the antenna shall be connected by a single, unbroken
 and undamaged cable to the ALC.
(3) The ALC shall be able to operate continuously and 
automatically at all time under any weather condition, and 
transmit accurate data within the area between 70°N and 70°S.
(4) The ALC shall be able to transmit data, including catch 
data, identification number of the ALC, date, time, longitude 
and latitude, speed and course.
(5) The GPS in the ALC shall be able to provide positions with a
 margin of error lower than 100 meters, with a confidence of 98%.
(6) The ALC which has the function of two-way communications 
between the vessel and the monitoring center shall be able to 
accept remote change of reporting frequency set by the competent 
authority or the commissioned professional institution, and 
shall have the function of reporting vessel position(s) in real 
time. 
The ALC without the function of two-way communications shall 
automatically report vessel position(s) at least every hour, and 
the time lag of the transmission of position data shall not 
exceed 90 minutes.
 
The manufacturers and types that meet the requirements 
stipulated in the preceding paragraph are shown in Appendix 1.
 
Article 3
The electronic logbook (E-logbook) system installed onboard any 
fishing vessel of distant water fisheries shall meet the 
specifications of software and hardware as shown in Appendix 2.
 
Article 4
The coordinate system of any electronic navigational chart 
installed onboard any fishing vessel of distant water fisheries 
shall be the World Geodetic System, WGS84.
 
Article 5
The competent authority shall maintain and update the equipment 
of the monitoring center so as to keep the monitoring center 
functional and operational 24 hours a day.
 
Article 6
The competent authority shall guide distant water fisheries 
operators to update the ALC and E-logbook system.
 
Article 7
These Regulations shall become effective on January 20, 2017.
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