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. |