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KMI International Journal of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
Korea Maritime Institute

KMI Int. J. Marit. Aff. Fish. 2011; 3(1):33-48

pISSN: 2005-9795

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54007/ijmaf.2011.3.1.33

Article

The Arctic Fisheries Regime and Its Implications to Korea

Seon-hee Eom*
*Senior Researcher, Korea Maritime Institute, Seoul, Korea. E-mail: sheom@kmi.re.kr, Tel.: +82-2-2105-2747

© Copyright 2021 Korea Maritime Institute. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: May 17, 2011; Revised: May 30, 2011; Accepted: Jun 24, 2011

Published Online: Jun 30, 2011

ABSTRACT

In the near future, the thawing of the Arctic Ocean will influence the fisheries by creating more fishing opportunities. The Arctic Ocean coastal states and other states like China, Japan, and EU have competitively established and announced their development policies for the Arctic including those related to fisheries. And it is no doubt an opportunity for the Korean fishing industries as well as those who are seeking new fishing grounds abroad due to diminishing fishing resources and forthcoming free trade regimes such as FTA and WTO/DDA. Despite the uncertainties in developing the Arctic fisheries and the lack of scientific data or statistics, the Arctic fisheries can become the center of world fisheries in the near future. The aim of this paper is to examine the current Arctic fisheries, their regimes and its implications, and to suggest objectives for Korean policymaking on the Arctic fisheries.

Keywords: Arctic Fishery; Arctic Fishery Regime; Arctic Council; RFMO; Scope of Arctic fishing grounds