Fisheries controlDepartment of Fisheries Control
SWEDISH BOARD OF FISHERIES
Department of Fisheries Control
Overall responsibility for fisheries control in Sweden
- Responsibility to ensure:
● that fishing opportunities allocated to Sweden (quotas and effort) are not over-utilized
● that fishing and the fish trade accords with EC- and national regulations
● that there is access to fishing information, including official fishing statistics.
● the control co-operation with the Swedish Coast Guard includes a joint Fisheries Competence Centre as a Single Access Point for the fisheries industry
Fisheries control
Follow-up of fisheries possibilities
Registration ReportingCrosscheck Quota follow-up
Mainprocess
Quota exchange
Risk-a
nalisys
Inspection ashore
Control of Marketing
Control of Quality
Inspection at sea
Control of Transportation
Qualityprocesses
Sanctions
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Organisation
Catch registration(18)
Surveillance(31)
Infringements andStatistics
(9)
Head of department Legal expert
Secretariat
Kungshamn (4)
Göteborg (6)
Simrishamn (8)
Karlskrona (8)
Board of FisheriesSurveillance Unit –Inspection teams
Kungshamn
Göteborg
Karlskrona
Simrishamn
Co-operation
● Swedish Coast Guard– Fisheries Competence Centre
– Common inspection activities
– Risk analysis
● International cooperation– Bilateral with other countries
– Community Control Agency - CFCA
– Joint Deployment Plans
● Tax authorities
● County Boards
● Industry
Risk analysis
● Shared project during 2008 between SBF and SCG
– Strategic Risk-assesment plan – 3 outpointed fisheries- Floatingtrawl in Kattegat and Skagerak, Demersal trawl
in Kattegat and Skagerak and Trawling for cod in the Baltic
– Targetcards
– Indicators
– Joint plan for fisheries control
– Joint organisation for implementation and operation
● Operational during JDP 2009
– Producing strategic material for the operational level (risk-objects: vessels, areas, harbours, behaviours etc)
– Project for each JDP
Agreed record with the Commission
● Surveillance– Increase number of resources for landing inspection
– Improved weighing process
– Improved model for following up and managing the landing inspections
– On line access to VMS for landing inspectors
– Risk based sampling
– VMS alarm for specific areas (pre-study)
● Administrative control– Automatic geographical cross checking against VMS
– Increased quality in the fisherman's reporting in the logbook
– Avoid malpractice of misreporting of cod in boxes
● Infringements– Administrative sanctions
National program for improvements of the fisheries control 2008 - 2011
● Take actions to carry out the agreed record
● Increased– Analysis
– Control of first sales
– Co-operation with:
– Tax authorities
– County Boards
– Swedish Coast Guard
● Development of– Inspections methodologies
– Improved and efficient IT-solutions
– Increased surveillance
● Actions for compliance – analysis, information and simplification
● Improved process for handling infringements
Main obstacles for compliance
● Over capacity
● Decreased profitability
● Inefficient management systems – does not create enough incitement for compliance
● Inefficient control regulation
● Complicated rules – hard to comply to and to enforce
● Lack of trust from the industry towards the regulation