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Assignment

The duties of the Center are training our country’s cadres and common sailors of a fishing vessel, improving the techniques of the fishery, and promoting sailors’ quality in order to cooperate with our country’s demands of the fishery development. In addition, due to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) had approved the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel (STCW-F) in 1995, the Center has conducted all kinds of trainings of the fishing vessel’s sailors. 1. Promote the quality of the fishing vessel’s sailors and recruit the fishery manpower. In recent years, our country’s fishery has promptly developed. Not only the amount of fishing vessel’s sailors is unable to meet the demand, but also the quality of them fails to cooperate with the developing requirements of the fishery modernization. Besides, our country’s economic development progresses rapidly. It is easy to work on the land; therefore, gradually, there are less and less persons willing to work on a fishing vessel. For this reason, the fishery manpower is insufficient and the fishery working persons are obviously getting old day by day. In order to cooperate with the government’s policies and the fishery demands, the Center intensively manages all kinds of trainings and increases various modern fishery vessels and turbines as the training facilities of the simulating education. At the same time, the Center lays stress on the practical training in order to train high quality cadres and common sailors of a fishing vessel to resupply the insufficiency of the fishery manpower.
2. Avoid the fishing vessel’s detention due to transgressions.
The Center strengthens the lectures of fishery laws and decrees and the regulations of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea to each class’s trainees, including overseas working notices, fishery present situations, the related regulations of the international fishery cooperation, the international regulations to the natural resources, the cadre sailors’ leadership, the disciplinary regulations of the involved smuggling fishing vessels and sailors, etc. It makes the trainees observe the laws and discipline. Simultaneously, the training emphasizes the significant loss when a fishing vessel is detained because of transgression of the law. In order to avoid the fishing vessels being detained abroad, the training also analyzes: why is the fishing vessel detained, the precautions of avoiding detention, and how to deal with the contingency of the fishing vessel’s detention.
3. Avoid disputes and bloodsheds on the fishing vessels on the sea
Special topic lectures and leadership courses are arranged for each cadre sailor’s training class. The theory matches up the demonstrations to teach the leadership that the cadre sailors shall possess. Besides, the class explicitly analyzes the leadership tricks, getting along with people and communication of a fishing vessel’s cadre sailor in order to make the trainees obtain experiences from the demonstrations and apply them on the practical situations of sailor management. It is anticipated enhancing the psychological development of the cadre sailors in order to promote the ability of leadership and to avoid disputes and bloodsheds on the fishing vessels on the sea.
4. Avoid shipwrecks of fishing vessels.

In order to cooperate with regulations of the International Maritime Organization’s ‘Torremolinos Protocol 1993 of the Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels’, which was approved in 1977, and ‘the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel’, the Center carries out each individual disaster defense training, such as lifesaving on the sea, vessel’s fire extinguishments, first aid and life raft demonstration, etc., to the sailors of the fishing vessel to strengthen fishermen’s emergency abilities of the shipwreck. The training especially emphasizes on the practical operation and regular drill in order to safeguard the fishing vessels’ sailors’ lives on the sea.

5. Execute the assessment of the natural resources and the statistics of catches.

In order to cope with the coming era of the management fishery and to fulfill the responsibility of the fishery country, the Center is aimed at our country’s major fish species of the pelagic fishing to proceed with the assessment of the general situation and the research of the development of the natural resources. The catch statistics is the foundation of the research and management of the natural resources. Under the system of the fishery responsibility, it is also the essential obligation of a fishery country. The Center is also aimed at our country’s pelagic fishing to proceed with the planning and improvement of the catch statistics system in order to be the scientific bases of the natural resources’ assessment and fishery management. In addition, it is the interchange foundation of each high seas countries and international organizations.