1.Q: How many Flotillas does the Directorate General have? Where are they stationed? What are their jurisdiction areas?
A: The Directorate General currently has 20 Flotillas and one Special Mission Flotilla, i.e. First (Keelung) Maritime Patrol, Second (Tamshui) Maritime Patrol, Third (Taichung) Maritime Patrol, Fourth (Tainan) Maritime Patrol, Fifth (Kaohsiung) Maritime Patrol, Sixth (Hualien) Maritime Patrol, Seventh (Su Ao) Maritime Patrol, Eighth (Penghu) Maritime Patrol, Ninth (Kinmen) Maritime Patrol, Tenth (Matsu) Maritime Patrol, Eleventh (Special) Maritime Patrol, Twelfth (Hsinchu) Maritime Patrol, Thirteenth (Pu Tai)Maritime Patrol, Fourteenth (Heng Chun) Maritime Patrol, Fifteenth (Taitung) Maritime Patrol, Sixteenth (Au Ti) Maritime Patrol, Northern Mobile Patrol, Central Mobile Patrol, Southern Mobile Patrol, Eastern Mobile Patrol. All Patrols are located in the places that are designated by their respective names across the nation, except that the Eleventh(Special)Maritime Patrol is located in Tamshui Township of Taipei County, Special Mission Flotilla is located outside Chichi District.

2. Q: Since the Directorate General is responsible for maritime ecology conservation, are whales, dolphins and carols included in your conservation work?
A: a. The Directorate General is in charge of maritime ecology maintenance which includes whales, dolphins and carols. Our subordinate units are the implementation agencies and the relevant authority is the Council of Agriculture.
b. The Directorate General will rapidly respond and conduct rescues in the cases of stranded whale & dolphin, harm to or illegal extraction of coral, and at the same will time report to the specialized (responsible) unit of the relevant authority.
c. The laws behind putting down illegal extraction of carols are Paragraphs 4 and 9 of Article 44 of the Fisheries Act in accordance with which the violating person is subject to maximum three-year prison term, detention or a fine of no more than NT$150,000, or subject to prison term and fine concurrently as per Paragraph 2 of Article 60 of the same Act.
d. Regarding illegal extraction of carols, Ilan, Taitung, Penhu, Pintung (including Kenting National park) counties have publicly announced the implementation.

3. Q: It has been an increasingly serious problem that Chinese fishing boats illegally enter Taiwan's territorial waters to undertake fishing activities which has serious impact on the welfare of Taiwan's fishermen. Please strengthen your efforts to put down these illegal activities.
A: a. The Directorate General has already promulgated the Directions Governing the Administrative Punishment on Chinese Boats and Goods and requested all Patrols to carry out the Directions. There have been some positive results.
b. Any Chinese boat that enters the prohibited or restricted waters of the ROC will be expelled. In the event of failed expulsion, suspected smuggling or illegal fishing activity, the boat, goods or personnel may be seized or detained and the matter shall be dealt pursuant to Articles 42, 43 and 45 of the Enforcement Rules for the Act Governing Relations between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area.
c. Handling of seized vessels, catch and fishing gears:
(1) In the event that bobbin trawl is illegally used for fishing in Taiwan's sea waters, the bobbin trawl shall be confiscated in accordance with the Enforcement Rules of the Act Governing Relations between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area.
(2) In the event that the same fishing vessel is seized more than twice, the vessel, catch and fishing gears thereof may be confiscated as per the laws, which are subject to the Regulations Governing the Handling of Smuggled Agricultural Products and shall be handled by county and city governments.
d. The Directorate General expelled 15,899 Chinese fishing vessels, and seized 3,898 fishing vessels, catch and other objects in accordance with administrative procedures between its establishment in February 2000 and May 2004.

4. Q: Chinese steel-shell boats illegally enter the sea waters to conduct fishing activities. Please strengthen your efforts to put down illegal explosive fishing and poison fishing activities.
A: a. The Directorate General is a law enforcement agency pursuant to the law. The relevant authority is local county and city governments. The Directorate General has promulgated the Points Strengthening the Prevention of Putting Down Chinese Fishing Vessels Illegally Entering Sea Waters to Conduct Fishing Activities" and "Directions Governing the Procedures of Administrative Punishment on Chinese Vessels and Goods," and requested all Patrols in writing to utilize the existing manpower and equipments to implement the above Points and Directions according to the laws.
b. In accordance with Article 9 of Fisheries Act, trawl fishing vessels are banned within three nautical miles from the Coast in order to protect fishery resources.
c. County and city governments are the relevant authority of this category of case and shall establish the "Joint Banning Illegitimacy Team" with the participation of all related units [County (City) Police Bureaus, Maritime Patrol Directorate General, fishing port station, township administration and regional fishermen's associations.] In the event that the Directorate General finds the trawl boats within three nautical miles from the Coast during its execution of duties, it can transfer the evidences to the county and city government on the ground of the violation of the Fisheries Act.

5. Q: How does the Directorate General improve its capabilities in maritime rescue and aid so as to provide further protection for people undertaking water activities?
A: a. The Directorate General has 16 Patrols, four Regional Sector Flotillas and one Fleet Direct-Cross which are spread over Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu. If the public has any enquiry, they can directly call the National Search and Rescue Command Center, Coast Guard Administration or case reporting toll-free line "118." Or, they can report the case to the mission command centers of all levels of the Directorate General or local fishing radio stations which will transfer the case; the Directorate General will immediately notify the nearby patrol boats to handle the matter by utilizing the boat positing system.
b. In order to effectively promote maritime rescue capabilities, the Directorate General has gradually allocated budgets to purchase related equipments. At present, the Directorate General has endeavored after the purchase and construction of large rescue boats in order to overcome the size problem, due to which the boast are restrained by wind and wave, to enhance maritime rescue capabilities and protect people's life and property safety.

6. Q: What are the criteria used for determining the conduct of "electrical fishing"?
A: In order to protect our fishery resources, putting down illegal electrical fishing is a major policy of the Directorate General, and the criteria are as follows:
a. Whether the suspect has intention to conduct electrical fishing.
b. Whether there is obvious sign of electrical fishing activity on site (such as different size fishes ate found in the catch, unidentified cables or bobbin is found on the boat since these gears are not ordinary fishing gears). In order to prevent electrical fishing from causing problems to fishermen, the Directorate General will focus on the flagrant crime or evidence collection in order to protect fishermen's rights.

7. Q: What are the procedures of the destruction of illegal Chinese goods seized in Kinmen and Matsu?
A: The procedures of the destruction of illegal Chinese goods seized in Kinmen and Matsu are as follows: a. Agricultural and fishery products:
(1) Send the duplicate of the document of action of the Chinese boat to the fishery and agriculture section of the local government.
(2) After the fishery and agriculture section receives the duplicate, it will dispatch personnel to seize the goods (agricultural products) and the responsible staff of the seizing unit and the fishery and agriculture section will escort the seized goods to the trash ground. The destruction will be supervised and photographed as evidence.
(3) After the supervised destruction, the fishery and agriculture section will produce a destruction certificate (two counterparts) with the seizing unit and the fishery and agriculture section each to hold one counterpart. b. Non- Agricultural products:
(1) After the smuggled goods are transferred to Kaohsiung (Keelung) Customs Office, Ministry of Finance which determines the goods shall be confiscated, the person involving in the case will be repatriated on the same boat.
(2) Handling of non- Agricultural products: After Kaohsiung (Keelung) Customs Office, Ministry of Finance adjudicates and transfers the goods to the Finance Bureau of (Lien Jiang) Kinmen County Government, the Bureau shall produce a destruction certificate (two counterparts) with the Patrol and the Finance Bureau each to hold one counterpart.
c. The Executive Yuan adopted the "Validly, Repeal and Other Related Support Measures of "Program for Strengthening the Prevention of Smuggling in Kinmen and Matsu Areas" drafted by the Ministry of Finance by the issue of Tai-90-Tsai-Tzu-Ti No. 045299. Since then, the Customs Authority has been responsible for investigating and combating smuggled goods (including illegal Chinese goods) in Kinmen and Matsu Areas.

8. Q: How does the Directorate General enhance its capabilities in maritime oil-cleaning?
A: Strengthen the professional skills of the staff in oil-cleaning in view that oil is cleaned regardless its scale and whether condition: a. Training objective: Strengthen ocean oil-cleaning capabilities to prevent ocean pollution, protect maritime environment, maintain maritime ecology, ensure national health and utilize maritime resources in sustainable way.
b. The Directorate General regularly conducts trainings related to ocean oil-cleaning.
(1) Conduct cadre seminar on ocean pollution prevention: Allow cadres of lower level to be familiar with ocean pollution evidence collection, investigation and transfer operation.
(2) Undertake regional practice and observation joint drills of serious ocean pollutions: the items include reporting procedures, establishment of emergence response center, placement of solid expansive boom, self-inflatable boom as well as the skimmer and sea-air joint monitoring.
(3) Practical training of the boom: The Directorate General coordinated China Petroleum Corporation to host the training, and provide lectures on handling of oil spill and response program as well as operation procedures. Staff visits Da Lin Oil Refinery of China Petroleum Corporation to engage in practical operation.
(4) Pollution evidence collection seminar: The Directorate General entrusts the National Taiwan Ocean University to train its staff to identify solid, organic, heavy metal, radiation, intoxicated compound pollutions, familiarize themselves with sample collection, reporting procedure as well as evidence collection techniques and strengthen the pollution evidence collection capabilities with the help of experiments.
(5) Maritime safety drills: Emergency handling and placement of the rope mop of oil in the event of ship oil spill.
(6) Provide lectures on laws and regulations related to maritime pollutions in monthly regular trainings.
c. Future trainings:
(1) Constantly conduct ocean pollution prevention seminars
(2) Constantly conduct practical drills to strengthen emergency response and de-pollution instruments
(3) Select excellent personnel abroad to participate in seminars

9. Q: What are our Exclusive Economic Zone and the jurisdiction areas of the Directorate General? How does the Directorate General implement fishery protection to ensure fishermen's rights?
A: a. The Directorate General's undertaking of law enforcement in our Exclusive Economic Zone is provided under the "Procedures Governing the Government's Protection of the Fishery Industry." The Directorate General is authorized to undertake the Exclusive Economic Zone patrol and protection within the temporary law enforcement line of the ROC fishery protection, and patrols can be extended beyond the temporary line if circumstance warrant. The major areas of law enforcement are:
(1) Northern sea area: Overlapping Exclusive Economic Zone with Japan - South of North latitude 29°18' and West of East Longitude 122°30' - 126°
(2) Southern sea areas: Overlapping Exclusive Economic Zone with the Philippines - North of north latitude 20°00' and the sea area between East longitude 119° – 125°07' (excluding adjacent sea areas of Batanes Islands)
(3) Eastern sea areas: the Exclusive Economic Zone between north latitude 24° and east longitude 125° 07'
b. In order to protect the rights and safety of the ROC fishing boats operating inside the overlapping Exclusive Economic Zone of the ROC and other countries, the Directorate General not only undertakes more than five voyages to patrol in the Exclusive Economic Zone every month pursuant to "Execution Program of Strengthening Fishery Patrol and Protection in the Exclusive Economic Zone" and "The Government's Standard Procedures of Fishery Patrol and Protection", but also increase the number of voyages as required by the fishing season, fishing grounds or conflicts.
c. Given that Japan has been aggressive in the adjacent waters of Taiwan and Japan in the East and Blue Fin Tuna's fishing season took place between May and July every year, our fishing boats have increased their activities in those areas. For the purpose of ensuring the safety of our fishing boats in the fishing grounds, large patrol vessels are dispatched to the overlapping Exclusive Economic Zones of the ROC and Japan to carry out duties with each voyage lasting more than three days. Moreover, the exchange of duties is conducted on site in order to implement fishery protection at any time.