The system nevertheless operates to a considerable extent on a degree of trust. There are nearly a quarter of a million recorded landings of fish each year. Of these the Fisheries Directorate of the Ministry makes a direct inspection of about one in a hundred (of which, in 2008, just over llA per cent resulted in either a written warning or police action). The coastguard makes about 2 000 at-sea inspections per year, this frequency has increased recently, though the overall duration of inspection activity has remained the same, so the time devoted to each inspection has fallen. The sales organisations7 main role in enforcement is to ensure that accurate records are kept of declared catches and landings, but in addition they undertake some specific inspections, of about one in two hundred landings in 2008.