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Rules and Procedures for Vessel Monitoring System Installation and Maintenance in Monitoring Aquatic Animal Transshipment Vessels or Storage Vessels to Function at All Time (5th Amendment) 2017 (B.E. 2560).

Country/Territory
Thailand
Document type
Regulation
Date
2017
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Government Gazette of 23 February 2016.
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Marine fisheries Monitoring Data collection/reporting Equipment Inspection
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Indian Ocean, South-Eastern Asia
Abstract

These Rules, issued by the Director-General of the Department of Fisheries under paragraph 1 of section 8 of the Royal Fisheries Ordinance, amend the Rules and Procedures for Vessel Monitoring System Installation and Maintenance in Monitoring Aquatic Animal Transshipment Vessels or Storage Vessels to Function At All Time by adding to paragraph two in clause 3 a provision concerning procedures to be carried out by the Fisheries Monitoring Center of the Department of Fisheries in case a new or replaced vessel monitoring system has been installed after the force date of the principal Notification. The Fisheries Monitoring Center shall forward the report on such installation to the Port in-Port out Control Center in the competent area within 24 hours so that inspection of its installation as well as sealing and marking of the VMS equipment can take place.

Full text
Thai
Website
www.fisheries.go.th

References - Legislation

Amends

Announcement of the Department of Fisheries on a fishing vessel monitoring system for vessels registered as a carrier for the transshipment of aquatic animals or as a vessel for the storage of aquatic animals and to ensure functionality thereof at all times (No. 3).

Legislation | Thailand | 2016

Keyword: Marine fisheries, Monitoring, Data collection/reporting, Equipment, Transshipment, Fishery management and conservation, Foreign fishing

Source: FAO, FAOLEX