After the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) came into effect, international cooperation through Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) was required, and each RFMO established and adopted the Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) for the regional Observer Programs to collect data on fishing activities and biological information and to monitor compliance with its CMMs. The observer coverage required by RFMO is set differently for each organization, ranging from 5% to 100%. In addition, tuna-RFMOs recommend increasing observer coverage in longline fisheries by at least 20% for reliable quantitative analysis of not only target species but also bycatch species and ecologically related species such as sharks, seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals. Therefore, in this study, we discussed ways to improve the national observer programs of Korean distant water fisheries that should be addressed in the future to respond to the RFMO trends.

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재료 및 방법
결과 및 고찰
    우리나라 옵서버의 정의 및 업무
    우리나라 옵서버 프로그램 운영현황
    RFMO별 옵서버 프로그램
    RFMOs의 옵서버 프로그램 동향
    해결해야 할 과제
결 론
사 사
References

• 이성일(국립부경대학교 해양생산시스템관리학부 교수) | Sung Il LEE (Professor, Division of Marine Production System Management, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Korea)
• 김장근(지속가능어업 자문/연구센타 박사) | Zang Geun KIM (Doctor, Consulting and Research Center for Sustainable Fisheries, Busan 48050, Korea) Corresponding author