imposes a fine ranging from five to fifteen base salaries on those who transship or unload fishery products in national territory, within their jurisdiction, without the authorization of INCOPESCA, or at a site not explicitly authorized by the institution, unless it is a case of force majeure or an unavoidable event that has been properly proven.

When a foreign vessel engaging in fishing wishes to unload fishery products at a Costa Rican port, it must first send the data of its last fishing trip electronically to the location, monitoring, and control system, in the corresponding format. Foreign vessels transporting transshipped fishery products that request to unload them at a Costa Rican port must also send the data of the last fishing trip of the vessel and the vessels involved in the transshipment electronically to the location, monitoring, and control system, in the corresponding format.