BFAR Integrated Marine Environment Monitoring System - IMEMS Phase II

The National Fisheries Monitoring Center (VMS Room) is now complete and operational at the 3rd floor of Fisheries Building Complex (New BFAR Building) located at BPI Compound, Brgy, Vasra, Viasayas, Quezon City

NFMC is an integrated network of national and regional monitoring centers sharing and accessing the same data set from NDMC with operator applications that provide a wide range of management, display, modeling, analysis and reporting functionality.

This will be the point of access for all users for vessel monitoring, oceanographic information, illegal fishing vessel detection, ocean physics and fish catch information.

VMS Room

The back-up NFMC in BFAR NMC in Navotas has been completed and operational.

Status of Implementation
PCMS Type 2: 117 Coast stations
As of August 2021

Status of Implementation
Vessel Monitoring System-100 Transceivers

As of August 25, 2021, a total of 1,046 commercial fishing vessels (CFVs) were installed with VMS-100 transceivers which constitutes 28% of the total number of vessels targeted for installation.

Status of Implementation
Port and Coastal Monitoring System (PCMS) Type 1: 15 towers
As of August 2021

IMEMS System Concept/ Architecture

How does the VMS-100 works?

What are the IMEMS Components?

What are IMEMS Project Objectives?