미국의 낚시면허제도의 한국에 도입에 관한 소고

Abstract

A Study on Introduction of the American Fishing License System Into Korea Sport fishing is one of popular leisure activities in the mass of Korean. It is expected that fishing population is increasing for the 5-days working system and out-door well-being life trends. Likewise, it also raises that environmental problems around fishing places, exhausting of fish resource, and disputes between sport fishermen and commercial fishermen on limited fish resources. However, there is no independent and systematic legal system to regulate sport fishing rather than commercial fishing. No government control exclusively the whole subjects of sport fishing; moreover, these matters are spreaded out among five departments controls. For these reason, government has been preparing fishing license system modeled after American system. In order to fish, it is necessary for anyone to get a license with adequate payment from the government in the fishing license system. The United States has operated the sport fishing license program for around 100 years. The United States began the fishing license system with resistance of citizens and systematic problems such as its enforcement issue; however, most of states of America and even a federal government have the fishing license system. This short paper studies American fishing license system for introduction into Korean legal system with comparative point of view. Especially, it explores legitimacy of the fishing license system, its application scope with personal matters and physical areas matters, issuing subjects and procedures, and its enforcement.