Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM): guidance for pelagic boats - updated 2025
This guidance sits alongside the Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) legislation and provides pelagic vessels with practical advice ahead of the REM requirements coming into force on 7 March 2026.
Footnotes
1 REM Privacy Notice: ( Remote Electronic Monitoring (“REM”) systems on fishing vessels (2024) Privacy Notice)
2 Future fisheries: management strategy - 2020 to 2030 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
3 Joint_Fisheries_Statement_JFS_2022_Final.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)
4 Fisheries Act 2020 (legislation.gov.uk)
5 The term ‘fully operational’ is used to mean that the REM system must be powered, carrying out its intended function, recording and storing the required data
6 The term ‘fully operational’ is used to mean that the REM system must be powered, carrying out its intended function, recording and storing the required data
Contact
Email: jessica.roscoe@gov.scot