The vessel to be leased shall operate sea services for the Directorate of Fisheries, and will be administrated and managed by the Directorate of Fisheries, Northern Region and the Monitoring Service [Overvåkningstjenesten], whose office is in Tromsø.
The vessel shall undertake expeditions along the entire Norwegian coastline. The service will be operated close to the coastline and the vessel will follow the fishing activity where the Directorate of Fisheries desires presence.
The vessel must tackle the weather and wind conditions foreseeable along the Norwegian coastline, and must be able to operate under the same conditions as the coastal fleet. The vessel's assignments will be control of the applicable fishing regulations. Prioritised assignments will i.a. be control of tools, area regulations, catch composition and catch treatment. Other foreseeable tasks are control at land facilities and transport of personnel.