technical characteristics and condition of the vessels) and in the fishing vessels
register, kept by the National Agency of Fisheries and Aquacultures (the Bulgarian
authority/institution, responsible for the control of the fishing activities).
Basic principle in the management of the Bulgarian fleet is that the fishing
capacity, being a composition of the gross tonnage and the power of the vessels
may never be increased before the taking out of the same or greater fishing capacity
from the Bulgarian fishing fleet.
The quantity of the catches, which is not assimilated in the Bulgarian fleet is due
mainly to the small fishing vessels under 12 m, which represent over 90% of the
whole Bulgarian fleet and perform small-scale fisheries alongside the coast. A big
part of these vessels almost do not perform fishing activities.
In order to overcome this problem during 2012 were made corrections in the
national legislation that allowed NAFA to undertake effective measures against the
non-active fishing vessels. An opportunity was created for the cessation of the
functions of the issued license for commercial fishing when no fishing activities are
performed during two following years. The released capacity afterwards remains in
favour of the state. As a result of this measures from the register of the fishing
vessels during 2013 are taken out a big number of fishing vessels – total of 392 – a
big part of them because of lack of fishing activities.
25.6.1.1 Weaknesses
– Limited human resources, participating in the management of the fleet in
Bulgaria;
– Difficulties in the analysis of the fishing labour because of the great number of
vessel, which are engaged in mixed maritime fisheries (under 12 m), namely
catches of several fish species at one and the same time with different fishing
gear during the year;
– Lack of automatic system for management of the fishing fleet;
– Lack of separate fish markets, the existence of small places for taking out of fish
and the fact, that the bigger part of the sailing vessels are smaller than 12 m,
create difficulties in the preciseness of there taking out and monitoring;
– The lack of joint researches with Romanian scientists of the stocks of sprat and
turbot in international waters during 2012 and 2013 had a negative impact on the
collection of more precise information for the availability of fish resources from
these species in the Black sea.
25.6.1.2 Strengths
– The assimilated corrections in the national legislation, which allow to undertake
effective measures against non-active fishing vessels, which are already applied;
– According to the latest corrections of the Fisheries and Aquacultures Act from
2013 our fishermen are obliged to become legal entities or sole proprietors until
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register, kept by the National Agency of Fisheries and Aquacultures (the Bulgarian
authority/institution, responsible for the control of the fishing activities).
Basic principle in the management of the Bulgarian fleet is that the fishing
capacity, being a composition of the gross tonnage and the power of the vessels
may never be increased before the taking out of the same or greater fishing capacity
from the Bulgarian fishing fleet.
The quantity of the catches, which is not assimilated in the Bulgarian fleet is due
mainly to the small fishing vessels under 12 m, which represent over 90% of the
whole Bulgarian fleet and perform small-scale fisheries alongside the coast. A big
part of these vessels almost do not perform fishing activities.
In order to overcome this problem during 2012 were made corrections in the
national legislation that allowed NAFA to undertake effective measures against the
non-active fishing vessels. An opportunity was created for the cessation of the
functions of the issued license for commercial fishing when no fishing activities are
performed during two following years. The released capacity afterwards remains in
favour of the state. As a result of this measures from the register of the fishing
vessels during 2013 are taken out a big number of fishing vessels – total of 392 – a
big part of them because of lack of fishing activities.
25.6.1.1 Weaknesses
– Limited human resources, participating in the management of the fleet in
Bulgaria;
– Difficulties in the analysis of the fishing labour because of the great number of
vessel, which are engaged in mixed maritime fisheries (under 12 m), namely
catches of several fish species at one and the same time with different fishing
gear during the year;
– Lack of automatic system for management of the fishing fleet;
– Lack of separate fish markets, the existence of small places for taking out of fish
and the fact, that the bigger part of the sailing vessels are smaller than 12 m,
create difficulties in the preciseness of there taking out and monitoring;
– The lack of joint researches with Romanian scientists of the stocks of sprat and
turbot in international waters during 2012 and 2013 had a negative impact on the
collection of more precise information for the availability of fish resources from
these species in the Black sea.
25.6.1.2 Strengths
– The assimilated corrections in the national legislation, which allow to undertake
effective measures against non-active fishing vessels, which are already applied;
– According to the latest corrections of the Fisheries and Aquacultures Act from
2013 our fishermen are obliged to become legal entities or sole proprietors until
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