National Agency for Fisheries and Aquacultures
NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR COLLECTION,
MANAGEMENT AND USE OF FISHERIES DATA
FOR 2011-2013
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National Agency for Fisheries and Aquacultures
National data collection programme developed in relation with the Council
Regulation (EC) No 199/2008.
The task is to maintain communications and data collation gathered from
different sources for transmission to the Commission and other specified
parties, to promote co-ordination and harmonization of scientific data collection,
to collate cost and administrative information from the different Bulgarian
institutions involved in the Programme and to ensure that activities are being
effectively carried out within the different Bulgarian organizations.
Partners
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanology
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Database structure
All data collected by the information system includes GT, KW, catch
data, days at sea, type of nets, landings and other transversal
variables. All the data comes from VMS, logbooks, first sale notes,
buyers notes and transport declaration.
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Economic Variables
The data for Economic, transversal, technical and biological variables, was
provided by two sources. The first source is the Logbooks, Sales notes and
FVR, all of these data are based in the NAFA information system. The
second source of information (economic variables) is the questionnaires
collected by NAFA staff under the national data collection programme.
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MMF
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Aquaculture and Processing sector
The information is collected through questionnaires for economic statistics.
For the years 2011 – 2012 the questionnaires are prepared including all the
variables and the data is aggregated.
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Aquaculture is one of the most important sub-sectors in the country for
several reasons. First, Bulgaria has traditions in the field of aquaculture and
the presence of a suitable water resources for development of farms.
Aquaculture includes both cold-water species (eg trout) and warm
temperature species (eg carp, sturgeon, etc.).. Today and for future,
containment farms would still find better prospects.
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Recreational Fisheries
According the Bulgarian legislation recreational fisheries
in Black sea does not require special license and is
limited only with the use of forbidden fishing gears.
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Research survey at sea
The surveys carried out by Institute of Oceanology Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences /IO BAS/ with research vessel “Academik. Vessel characteristics:
Lengh – 55,5 m.; engine power – 736 kW; tonnage – 1225 t.; crew size –
22; operating costs per day 5 531,77 euro. Scientists who perform the
surveys are d-r Panayotova and d-r Raikov.
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Effects of fishing sector on marine ecosystem
In recent years anthropogenic pressure on the marine environment reaches
high levels. The sea provides resources for many important economic sectors
such as commercial fishing, research and exploitation of oil and gas
exploration and shipping.
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co-financing survey
MAF Ministry of Agriculture
IO-BAS Institute of
and Food
Oceanology. Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences
co-financing
DMFCFR. Directorate Fisheries Management
and Conservation of Fisheries Resources
contract
ISS NAFA
NAFA-MMF Department
Information System of
NAFA
of fishery management and
monitoring
National
Correspondent
Regional Offices
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Thank you for attention
attention.
For information
Stoyan.urumov@iara.government.bg
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