The Effects of Model Project of Self-Governing Coastal Fishery in Korea

Abstract

"Recently, many scholars of public administration had a great concern with the government's role. They asserted that the work which we had thought government should do traditionally ought to be delegated to the private sector or to the self-governance system. This kind of discourse was reviewed seriously by the Department of Fishery Management, Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, in Korea. Traditional government initiative management system of coastal fishery could not reflect the regional fishing characteristics. The system brought about the conflicts between fishers and officers in charge as well as among fishers. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries has enforced the Model Project of Self-governing Coastal Fishery in Korea since July 2001 to solve those problems, and to make fishers to participate positively in fostering their sustainable production base of fishery."