Pelagic fishing - remote electronic monitoring: guidance

This guidance sits alongside the Remote Electronic Monitoring SSI, which will come into force for pelagic fishers on 7 March 2026.


Footnotes

1 REM Privacy Notice | gov.scot (https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/advice-and-guidance/2024/06/remote-electronic-monitoring-privacy-notice/documents/remote-electronic-monitoring-rem-systems-fishing-vessels-2024-privacy-notice/remote-electronic-monitoring-rem-systems-fishing-vessels-2024-privacy-notice/govscot%3Adocument/remote-electronic-monitoring-rem-systems-fishing-vessels-2024-privacy-notice.pdf).

2 Future fisheries: management strategy - 2020 to 2030 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3 Joint_Fisheries_Statement_JFS_2022_Final.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

4 Fisheries Act 2020 (legislation.gov.uk)

5 The term ‘fully operational’ is used to mean that the REM system must be powered, carrying out its intended function, recording and storing the required data

6 The term ‘fully operational’ is used to mean that the REM system must be powered, carrying out its intended function, recording and storing the required data

7 The World Geodetic System 1984 Reference System (WGS 84) is maintained by the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. This Reference System refers to the 1984 revision of the World Geodetic System and subsequent modifications. The authoritative definition of the World Geodetic System 1984 Reference System (WGS 84) is contained in the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Standardisation Document NGA.STND.0036_1.0.0_WGS84, Version 1.0.0 of 8th July 2014 entitled “Department of Defense World Geodetic System 1984: Its Definition and Relationships with Local Geodetic Systems” (https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=4085).

8 Edition 2.2: International Electrotechnical Commission, 2013.

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