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Chatham House, London 9 May 2006 Fighting illegal fishing in the Southern Indian Ocean: a success story against poachers Philippe Schwab, CLS France pschwab@cls.fr Protection of the fisheries in the South Indian Ocean A triple objective : Economical Ecological Political Kerguelen islands
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Chatham House, London9 May 2006 Fighting illegal fishing in the Southern Indian Ocean:a success story against poachersPhilippe Schwab, CLS Francepschwab@cls.fr
Protection of the fisheries in the South Indian Ocean • A triple objective : • Economical • Ecological • Political Kerguelenislands Toothfish
Surface Situation report Navy System Overview Proposed Solution Using a dedicated autonomous station, receive and process large quantities of satellite SAR data rapidly in order to detect all the vessels in the areas of interest Use the Argos system to detect the cooperative vessels in the area By subtraction, detect the non cooperative vessels
Operational Overview Programming Acquisition and reporting Area of interest acquisition plan for Radarsat-1. Every 24 days Area of interest acquisition plan for ENVISAT. Every 35 days CSA/RSI ESA CLS Scheduling French fisheries French fisheries CLS CLS Radarsat-1 acquisitions ENVISAT acquisitions RSI Target reports + Image chips Station reports CSA ESA French fisheries CSA/RSI CLS reports ARGOS data
Acquisition plans Radarsat-1 Envisat 875 scenes every 35 days Image mode IS6 HH 70 Km x 70 Km Resolution : 30 meters 655 scenes every 24 days Wide swath W3 150 Km x 150 Km Resolution : 30 meters
Facilities installed in Kerguelen Island Diameter : 9,60 meters Height : 6,40 mètres Weight : 4 500 kg Wind speed < 320 Km/h Band-X antenna Dish of 5,40 mètres
Facilities installed in Reunion IslandFrench maritime authorities SCOPE META
Operational results Opérational since 13 February 2004 Envisat Radarsat-1 Data delivery < 2 hours
Operational results 21-06-2004 Uruguayan vessel Apache 90% of the illegal fishing has disappeared
Examples of vessels « Apache » longliner 57m « Marion Dufresne 2 » research and supply vessel 118m « Cap Bourbon 2 » longliner 56m