• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2017년도 공동학술발표회
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• pp.84-84
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• 2017

• 수산경영론집
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.51-66
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• 2018

During the Joseon period, the East Sea would be called 'Gyeonghae' due to a large number of whales. In the Republic of Korea, whaling was locally permitted in 1946. However, the number drastically dropped because the hunting of the marine mammal had already been carried out in Russia, the U.S. and Japan since 1800s. Before a moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced by the International Whaling Commission(IWC) in 1986, whale populations in the East Sea had plunged. Furthermore, Korean gray whales and fin whales weren't found anymore in that area. With the suspension, whale hunting was banned in Korea as well. Even so, accidentally caught whales have been allowed to be distributed on the market with respect for local food culture. With the establishment of Whale Museum and hosting of the 57th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission(IWC) at Jangsaengpo in 2005, whale tourism was facilitated in earnest. This whale tourism has been operated by Nam-gu Office and Nam-gu City Management Corporation in Ulsan. However, the popularity of whale tourism has increased a demand for whale meat. At the same time, there has been concern over decrease in whale populations because of illegal whaling. In addition, a conflict between the use and protection of whales has caused confusion in tourism identity. Actually, there is a serious doubt on the sustainability of whale tourism due to the decade-long deficit and excessive investments. This study attempts to define a concept of whale tourism and propose a future direction for the sustainable growth and development of Korea's whale tourism industry after developing such comprehensive assessment indicators as a basic research for the introduction of sustainable whale tourism. To achieve the aim of this study, AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) was chosen as a main research tool and the factors were ranked by a comprehensive analysis of principal factors and detail factors. The current study showed the following results. First, ecological environment(0.430) was indicated the most important factor of whale tourism assessment indicators. Moreover, Population(0.1302), Action for Cetacean protection(0.1031), Governance(0.0898) were critical factors. On the other hand, Accommodations(0.0085), Whale meat(0.0088) were unimportant factors than others.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.554-562
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• 2022

인류 기술의 발전은 고래자원 고갈로 이어졌으며, 고래자원의 보존과 포경산업의 질서 있는 발전을 위해 국제포경위원회가 설립되었다. 상업포경 모라토리엄이 발효 이후 고래고기 등의 국제거래는 전면 금지되었다. 그러나 국내의 경우 혼획된 고래는 유통이 가능하여 포획 시 경제적 이득 때문에 선박을 불법으로 개조하여 조직적으로 활동하고 있다. 이에 적극적으로 단속하고 있지만 불법포획 및 유통을 막기에는 부족한 실정이다. 이러한 불법포획 및 유통을 막기 위해서는 항공전력과 경비함을 이용한 입체적인 단속이 효과적이며, 나포된 포획선과 선원들을 신속히 분리하여 증거인멸을 방지해야 한다. 투명한 유통을 위해서는 국립수산과학원의 고래 DNA 데이터베이스를 기반으로 한 법과학 기관의 DNA를 활용한 고래 종판별 및 개체식별 등의 관련기술 고도화가 필요하다. 이에 해양경찰연구센터에서는 관련된 국가R&D연구과제를 직접 수행하고 있으며, 고래혈흔에 특이적으로 반응하는 신속검사 키트 개발 및 증거물 이송팩을 제작·배포하여 고래 관련 증거물에 대한 현장 감식 효율을 높이고 감정 기술 고도화를 위한 연구를 진행중이다.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2009

The Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, is the smallest baleen whale in the suborder Mysticeti. Because this species inhabits coastal areas, it became a main target species of coastal small-type whaling in the North Atlantic and the Northwest Pacific Oceans, and the species' population size dramatically decreased because of over-exploitation. As a result, the International Whaling Commission declared a global moratorium on whaling and launched the development of a management procedure for protecting the whales. Morphological studies, whaling history analysis, and genetic studies conducted mainly by Japanese scientists showed the existence of one unique "E" stock that inhabits the waters around the Korean peninsula and mixes with the "O" stock in the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. We used the mitochondrial DNA control region polymorphism of 348 Minke whales bycaught or stranded in Korean waters from 30 October 1998 to 25 June 2005 to assess the whale population structure by year. The frequency of the 10 major haplotypes from the 40 identified haplotypes was not significantly different among groups, suggesting that a subpopulation was not present. A comparison of the genetic distances calculated with Tamura-Nei's method showed that the distances between groups were lower than those within groups, which suggests that there was no genetic difference in the Minke whale populations. The Fst comparison between groups and the phylogenetic tree constructed using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) and Neighbor Joining (NJ) method also detected no obvious sub-stock structure.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.486-492
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• 2012

In the late 1970s, the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute (NFRDI) started cetacean research to submit the Korean whale catch record to the International Whaling Commission. This continued until the moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. The NFRDI resumed cetacean research with a pilot whale sighting survey in 1999. Subsequently, the NFRDI has conducted 53 cetacean sighting surveys within the Korean exclusive economic zone between 2000 and 2010. The surveys took a total of 760 days and cruising for 23,866 nautical miles. The finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis was sighted most frequently (735 times), followed by the minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata (396 times), the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis (102 times), and the Pacific white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (27 times). Minke whales were distributed in the Yellow Sea and coastal area of the East Sea from spring to fall. Pacific white-sided dolphin sightings were restricted to the middle and upper coastal areas of the East Sea in summer. Common dolphins were sighted from east of the southern coast to the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula from spring to fall. Finless porpoise occurred in all Korean coastal areas, except the middle and upper eastern coast.

• 해양정책연구
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.183-204
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• 2018

국제포경위원회의 상업포경금지 조치에 따라 1986년부터 대한민국에서 포경이 금지되었다. 혼획으로 사망하는 고래의 유통은 계속 이루어져 국제기구 등에서 불법포획 의혹을 제기하기도 했다. 이에 고래 유통 질서를 확립하기 위해 2011년 "고래자원의 보존과 관리에 관한 고시"가 공포되었다. 이후 정부는 고시의 내용을 수 차례 개정하며 유통 질서를 바로 잡고자 했으나, 불법포획 고래의 유통을 막기에는 여전히 부족한 부분이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이력추적 시스템 구축을 통한 고래 유통 질서 확립을 위해 위 고시의 개정을 포함한 관련 제도 개선 사항 등에 대해 연구하였다. 먼저, 불법포획 고래의 시장 진입을 제도적으로 차단하고, 혼획으로 사망한 고래만 유통이 되도록 제도의 개정이 이루어져야 한다. 그리고 불법 유통에 대한 강력한 증거 자료로 사용되는 DNA 데이터베이스를 완벽하게 구성하기 위해 시료 채집 방법과 수사용 시료의 분석 절차 등에 대한 개선이 필요하다. 끝으로 효과적인 유통 이력추적 시스템을 확립해야 한다. 기존의 시스템을 활용하기에는 법률 적용, 시민단체 반대 등 현실적인 어려움이 많기 때문에 블록체인 기술을 활용한 새로운 시스템을 개발하는 것이 보다 타당한 방법으로 여겨진다.