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