China has implemented VMS reporting since October, 2006, and it is mandatory that all fishing vessels shall have an operating VMS equipment on board when fishing overseas. Each vessel operating in IATTC area is equipped with an operating VMS on board in line with IATTC VMS Resolution. Regulation on VMS Reporting was issued by our Ministry in 2006 and was revised, thereafter, in 2014, according to which manual reports are compulsory by the vessel/vessel owner should the vessel not able to be automatically polled. For those vessels whose crew members turned off their VMS on board on purpose and/or tampered, the company will be deemed as seriously violating domestic regulations and will face a severe penalty, e.g. their fishing license will be suspended in case of a serious nature.

Deliberately shutting down, moving, or interfering with equipment such as vessel position monitoring and automatic identification of fishing vessels, or deliberately reporting false information, changing the name of the vessel, the identification code, the identification of the fishing vessel, or the parameters of the fishing vessel, or changing the main engine of the fishing vessel without authorization;