Chapter 13, 28 February Icelandic Coast Guard ERS/VMS/AIS

1. Chapter 13, 28 February Icelandic Coast Guard ERS/VMS/AIS

2. The Icelandic Coast Guard • The ICG is a law enforcement agency responsible for • maritime surveillance for safety and security • monitoring and response on the ocean around Iceland • The operation is based on • gathering, analyzing and distributing information • close cooperation with the neighbouring countries in order to create as accurate a surface picture as possible, at any given moment, to ensure maritime safety and security

3. The tasks of the Icelandic Coast Guard • Safety and security surveillance and law enforcement at sea • Protection against illegal activities such as illegal migration and illegal drug trafficking • Fisheries control and enforcement • Pollution surveillance and response • Natural resource and ecology protection • Salvage and rescue diving • International cooperation • Search and rescue • Emergency medical transport • Explosive Ordinance Disposal “EOD” • Hydrographic surveying and nautical charting • Assistance to law enforcement on land • Civil protection

4. Activity in the area • The Icelandic EEZ is an area of 754.000 km2 • There are ca. 1600 vessels on the Icelandic registry. • Up to 1000 vessels can be at sea at the same time. • Vessels from Greenland, Faroe Islands, Norway and EU are licensed to fish in the Icelandic EEZ. • Over 1800 vessels arrive from abroad to Iceland every year.

5. Icelandic Search and Rescue Region Icelandic SRR • 1.9 million km2 • Icelandic Coast Guard responsible for Maritime and Aeronautical SAR in the area • JRCC operated by Icelandic Coast Guard

6. Assets • Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPVs) • Coastal Patrol Vessel (CPV) • MPA • Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters

7. The Integrated System • Maritime related services combined in a single centre • Maritime Traffic Service • VTS • Vessel monitoring centre • Fisheries Monitoring Centre • Fisheries VMS • Schengen Border Control • Coastal Radio • Compliance with GMDSS • Coast Guard Operations • General Maritime Surveillance coordination • MRCC + ARCC =JRCC

8. Integrated System - Single Point of Contact

9. AIS Vessels in tracking Fisheries VMS Safety VMS Vessels in tracking Schengen - ISPS • Operation centre • VMS • FMC • MTS • MRCC – ARCC = JRCC • GMDSS • Coast Guard • 112 (Emergency hot-line) • Civil Protection • State Police • Voluntary SAR Fishing licences Port call Ship Registry Position Crew List Entry – Exit NEAFC POS - Catch and Activity – Notifications and Authorisations. Catch/activity Other States Sightings VDS Coast Guard database Safe Sea Net database Coast Guard aircraft PSC Compiled files automatically distributed to relevant recipients. Coastal Radar Coast Guard vessels LRIT State Police Customs Directorate of Fisheries Icelandic Maritime Administration Port security officers NEAFC – NAFO Other States Coast Guard Operation Centre Information Flow Chart

10. The VMS • Tracking is primarily for safety • Reporting frequency • Ships 24 m > one-hour • Ships < 24 m every 15 minute • One-hour if outside the VHF coverage but must then have appropriate tracking device installed • Passenger ships every 15 minute • Same reports used for safety and fisheries control • Closed areas monitored at operations centre

11. Bilateral VMS • Bilateral tracking agreements with; • Greenland • Faroe Islands • Norway • Russia • Automatic procedures • Daily catch reporting • Full “Electronic Reporting” from the vessels Electronic Logbooks is being tested

12. VDS VDS during the redfish season in the Irminger Sea • Vessel Detection System (VDS) • VDS has been used by the Icelandic Coast Guard since 2001 • Based on Low Earth Orbiting Satellites using radar • Image window 300 x 300 kilometres • Automatically correlated with VMS information • Unknown targets highlighted • Found to be especially useful to have a snapshot of distant areas • Can make maritime surveillance more cost effective, especially the airborne surveillance Processed VDS image of vessels fishing for redfish in the Irminger Sea 19th May 2007

13. Catch and fishing effort reporting • The Icelandic Coast Guard • Receives catch and activity reports from all foreign fishing vessels authorised to operate in the IEEZ • All reports are stored in a database • Data automatically transmitted to patrol units and used for comparison during inspections at sea • Full access to received data for the Directorate of Fisheries • Receives same reports from NEAFC CP vessels operating in relevant Regulatory Area waters from the NEAFC Secretariat • Data is accessible for NEAFC inspectors on scene

14. Automation Distribution of data • Catch and activity • Compiled list transmitted every few hours • Position list • Transmitted as plain text, file for import into inspection database and as data for display in the patrol units ECDIS • Schengen list - Port-call list • Summarised lists transmitted every few hours to several recipients • Missing reports list • List of vessels which have not transmitted required reports, such as Catch

15. Automation, cont. • Warning lists • Compiled every few hours • Comparison of VMS position list against; • Ship registry • Fishing licence database • Suspension list • Crew list • Transmitted to all patrol units, operations centre and operations division

16. ERS • Iceland is preparing a full ERS with reporting from Electronic Logbooks • Electronic Logbooks already a requirement in Iceland • Reporting software as an add-on has been introduced and used by some vessels • ERS to fulfil RFMO requirement • NEAFC • Bilateral ERS • Content of reports still being discussed • Possibility to include additional data • Today's report format and message types may still be used • Broadband online connection to fishing vessels may however introduce new possibilities

17. Use of AIS • AIS system already established in Iceland • Used for; • Tracking for vessel safety • Is now replacing existing dedicated VHF reporting system • As fisheries VMS is using the same data, AIS is applicable for fisheries control within its area of signal distribution • Additional value for fisheries control • Patrol vessels and aircraft equipped with AIS • Remote identification possible

18. Integration of different sensors - Building the recognised Surface Picture

19. International fisheries enforcement • Obligations for fisheries control in the NEAFC Regulatory Area • Coast Guard with inspection and surveillance presence • OPV - MPA • Automatic forwarding from the NEAFC Secretariat of; • VMS positions • COE – ENT – CAT – TRA – POR – COX and EXI reports from CP vessels and cooperating non-CP vessels • All VMS information visible at Integrated Operations Centre and in ECDIS of relevant surveillance unit

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