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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2018.24.7.875

A Study on the Advancement of the Legal System for Small Fishing Vessels to Ensure Marine Safety  

Song, Byung-Hwa (Korea Ship Safety Technology Authority)
Lee, Kyoung-Hoon (Korea Ship Safety Technology Authority)
Choi, Woon-Kuy (Korea Ship Safety Technology Authority)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.24, no.7, 2018 , pp. 875-888 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Government of the Republic of Korea has been continuously improving its legal system to ensure marine safety as a precaution against marine accidents. However, despite the ongoing improvement of the legal system, the number of maritime accidents has been increasing steadily, suggesting that the efficacy of the legal system is insufficient. As for recent marine accidents, small fishing vessels (less than 10 tons) account for 44.9 % of marine accidents over 5 years ('13_'17). Therefore, this study investigated the improvement status of the Korean government's legal system for small fishing vessels and the characteristics of related overseas legal systems in order to find a way to further improve marine safety for small fishing vessels. Following the results, the Korean government's laws related to small fishing vessels show a hybrid phenomenon due to the history of merging ('97) and separation ('09) of legal systems for fishing and non-fishing vessels, and it has been concluded that only improvements to construct additional facilities are being performed, and those in a fragmentary manner. In addition, overseas legal systems for small fishing vessels were confirmed to have requirements strengthening the responsibility of owners and operators of fishing vessels and introduced a self-inspection program. Based on these results, a plan is suggested to improve the efficacy of the legal system to ensuree marine safety for small Korean fishing vessels.
Keywords
Marine Accidents; Marine Safety; Legal System; Small Fishing Vessel; Self-Inspection Program;
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