연근해어선감척사업의 잔존어업자 감척비용부담 방안연구

Abstract

As a Fishing Capacity Reduction Program has been conducted in many countries in order to recover marine resource habitats, the results are greatly reduced earnings in fishery. In Korea, the fishery buy-back program has been conducted since 1994 in order to protect and preserve the marine resources in onshore and offshore, and a bidding system, which can be more efficient and economical than the previous operation, has been used in the buyback program for onshore fisheries since 2005. Normally, the fishery buy-back program has required a large amount of money from federal and local government. Recently, there is a dispute in consideration of the payment by government for the program around world and the cost for buyback program has been paid by the remained fishers some countries. The basic idea of imposing program costs on the remained fishers is that those who do not use a service should not be obligated to pay for it. It is “User Pays” principle which is fair and desirable. This paper discusses a possibility of charging the cost for a Fishing Capacity Reduction Program in Korea for the remained fishers through a detailed case study of another country. In addition, this paper considered the related provisions under current law with the User Pays principle and also conducted a survey containing a set of questions in order to investigate fishers' opinion on the cost for a Fishing Capacity Reduction Program in the coastal and offshore fisheries. There are some prerequisites that need to be fulfilled before imposing cost for the program to the remained fishers. Firstly, the marine resource should be fully recovered to the satisfaction level in which the remained fishermen are willing to pay for the costs. Secondly, realistic and enforceable regulations and laws should be enacted which will encourage to participate in fishery buyback programs. Finally, the program related studies such as cost-benefit analysis of fishery buyback program and the prediction of participants should be completed before using the “User Pays” principle in Fishing Capacity Reduction program.