Division Enforcement

Partly to aid enforcement, commercial fishing vessels (depending on the length of the ship) must be equipped with activated operational AIS or VMS tracking devices or black boxes. Shell extraction vessels and mussel fishing vessels must have a black box. The black box system registers the vessel’s location at regular intervals; the pattern of these registrations will show whether the vessel was used for fishing or relaying purposes. Vessels shorter than 12 metres do not have to be equipped with such devices.