This study aims to face common threats from the depletion of fish resources, the decline of production and employment as well as the increase of life risk in East Sea Rim countries, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia due to the Chinese fishing fleets entering East Sea. The recent competition in fishing among fishing vessels and fleets of national origin operating in the East Sea has induced a significant change in the ecological landscape of the fishing fleets cluster while having influenced production and employment in the fishing industries of South Korea and Japan as well as life threat on the fishermen in North Korea. It seems that the population organizational ecological theory can be applied to this change. It can be seen as the isomorphism of the selection process over the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to avoid the environment in which these North Korean fishing vessels are pushed against the Chinese fleet in the North Korean part of the East Sea. To resolve the fishery disputes or conflict in the common waters in East Sea, first of all, Chinese fishing fleets will be required to put international pressure so as to solve the unfairness of the illegal fishing and overfishing by the International Fishery Organization or the UN violations of the sanctions against North Korea selling fishing rights to China. Although it is not easy for South Korea to cooperate with North Korea in the short term, South Korea will be able to support the fishery infrastructure in North Korea in the mid- to the long-term to prevent the loss of innocent lives for their fishermen and to raise their incomes.

Abstract
Ⅰ. 서 론
Ⅱ. 동해의 생태 지형적 특징과 어족자원
Ⅲ. 조직군 생태이론과 갈등 발생의 시각
Ⅳ. 동해에서 양국 어업 협정과 쟁점
    1. 한·일 어업 협정
    2. 한·러 어업 협정
    3. 일·러 어업 협정
    4. 북·중 어업 협정
    5. 북·러 어업 협정
Ⅴ. 중국어선의 동해 진출이 어업생산과 고용에 미치는 영향
Ⅵ. 중국어선의 동해 진출이 북한어선의 불법조업에 미친 영향
    1. 한국 해역에서 중국 및 북한의 불법조업으로 인한 갈등
    2. 일본해역에서 북한의 불법조업으로 인한 갈등과 생존 위협
    3. 한·일 중간수역인 대화퇴(大和堆) 어장에서 북한의 불법조업으로 인한 갈등
    4. 러시아 해역에서 북한의 불법조업과 어업분쟁
Ⅶ. 결 론
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• 최영진(경희대학교 국제지역연구원) | Young-Jin Choi (Institute of Global Affairs, Kyung Hee University) Corresponding author