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The Fishery Protection Squadron is a front-line squadron of the Royal Navy with responsibility for patrolling the UK's Extended Fisheries Zone. The squadron, with headquarters at Portsmouth Naval Base, are equipped with four s; three are based in the UK, while is based in the Falkland Islands. The squadron is the oldest front-line squadron in the Royal Navy, and boasts Admiral Lord Nelson amongst those who have served in it. Originally, the squadron was based on the coast of North America, Iceland and the UK, patrolling much of the North Atlantic against French and American incursions. Over the past hundred years it has been slimmed down to follow a more policing-oriented approach, dealing mainly with infringements by civilian fishermen. Despite this, it still has a strong military role, as evidenced in its role in the Cod Wars of the 1960s-70s. ==Current operations== Royal Navy officers assigned to the Fishery Protection Squadron have a secondary role as British Sea Fisheries officers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fishery Protection Squadron )〕 There is a formal contract between the Ministry of Defence, the Marine and Fisheries Agency and DEFRA that allows the squadron to conduct inspections of all fishing vessels in all UK (excepting Scottish) waters.〔 Fishery Protection Squadron vessels can also stop British fishing vessels in international waters.〔 In the 2008/09 contract year, the squadron spent 700 days at sea on patrol, conducting 1,102 inspections.〔 From the inspections, 231 ships broke UK or EU law.〔 As a result, 144 verbal warnings, 33 written warnings and 10 financial administrative penalties were handed out.〔 The most serious breaches resulted in eight vessels being detained at UK ports.〔 When a vessel is detained, the captain of the squadron ship contacts the DEFRA operation centre in London, which formulates a decision based on information provided to it by ships, aircraft, district fishery inspectors and fishermen, and then relays this decision back to the fishery protection ship.〔〔 In 2008, 60% of all fish caught in the EU were caught within British jurisdiction. With as many as 500 fishing ships in British waters at any one time, including dozens from other EU countries, it is acknowledged to be a very difficult task to patrol UK fishing grounds.〔 There is also monthly rotating aerial surveillance of the entire fishing area under call-sign "Watchdog", with aircraft provided by Direct Flight Aviation.〔 Each aircraft transmits the identity and position of the vessel to squadron ships, which, combined with satellite data from navigational databases which allows the squadron to build a surface picture of fishing activity.〔 Each day, data from the inspections is sent to fisheries managers.〔 The managers form part of several agencies which co-ordinate on a super-national level to monitor the fish stocks, negotiates fishing agreements and plan conservation measures.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fishery Protection Squadron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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