§600.1503. Position report data formats and transmission.
50 C.F.R. § 600.1503
Unless otherwise specified, this subsection applies to all VMS units, MCSs and bundles. Units that can operate as both an EMTU and EMTU-C must meet the requirements for both an EMTU and an EMTU-C in order to gain type-approval as both. To be type-approved in any given fishery, a VMS unit must also meet any additional positioning information as required by the applicable VMS regulations and requirements in effect for each fishery or region for which the type-approval applies. The VMS unit must meet the following requirements:
Transmit all automatically-generated position reports, for vessels managed individually or grouped by fleet, that meet the latency requirement under § 600.1504.
When powered up, must automatically re-establish its position reporting function without manual intervention.
Position reports must contain all of the following:
Unique identification of an EMTU/EMTU-C and clear indication if the unit is an EMTU-C.
Date (year/month/day with century in the year) and time stamp (GMT) of the position fix.
Date (year/month/day with century in the year) and time stamp (GMT) that the EMTU-C position report was sent from the EMTU-C.
Position fixed latitude and longitude, including the hemisphere of each, which comply with the following requirements:
The position fix precision must be to the decimal minute hundredths.
Accuracy of the reported position must be within 100 meters (328.1 ft).
An EMTU/EMTU-C must have the ability to: (1) Store 1,000 position fixes in local, non-volatile memory.
Allow for defining variable reporting intervals between 5 minutes and 24 hours.
Allow for changes in reporting intervals remotely and only by authorized users.
An EMTU/EMTU-C must generate specially identified position reports upon:
Antenna disconnection.
Loss of positioning reference signals.
Security events, power-up, power down, and other status data.
A request for EMTU/EMTU-C status information such as configuration of programming and reporting intervals.
The EMTUs loss of the mobile communications signals.
An EMTU must generate a specially identified position report upon the vessel crossing of a pre-defined geographic boundary.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Source
Source: 85 FR 40921, July 8, 2020, unless otherwise noted.
Authority
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 561 and 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Source
Source: 61 FR 32540, June 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted.