To implement the Polluter Pays Principle and ensure the full life-cycle management of fishing gear, South Korea introduced the world’s first Fishing Gear Deposit System in 2024. Despite its strategic significance in marine environment management, the system currently shows a critically low estimated collection rate of 3.35% and a budget execution rate of 12.4%. Given the inherent difficulties of monitoring, control and surveillance in marine environments, fostering the voluntary participation of fishers is vital for the effective implementation of the policy. Recognizing that policy acceptance is driven by multi-layered factors beyond economic incentives, including moral norms, social pressure, and perceived legitimacy, this study adopts Strauss and Corbin’s Grounded Theory to explore the complex influences of individual environments, community customs, and past policy experiences among 20 coastal trap fishers. This research aims to provide a timely diagnosis of the barriers to fisher participation in these early stages of implementation by examining the factors underlying policy resistance. The results reveal that among the 20 participants, only 9 were participating. Four of them were found to have adopted bypass strategies to mitigate economic risks. The paradigm analysis identified “Strategic Bypassing” as the dominant behavioral type, a pattern in which fishers acknowledge the policy's necessity yet remain reluctant to participate due to economic burdens and infrastructure deficiencies. Therefore, enhancing acceptability requires a fundamental shift toward inducing voluntary participation through continuous stakeholder consultation and the removal of infrastructural barriers, rather than simply intensifying mandatory regulations or enforcement.

Abstract
I. 서 론
II. 연구방법론
    1. 연구 설계
    2. 연구 대상 선정 및 자료 수집
    3. 데이터 분석 절차
Ⅲ. 연구 결과
    1. 개방 코딩(Open Coding)
    2. 축 코딩(Axial Coding)
    3. 선택 코딩(Selective Coding)
Ⅳ. 고찰 및 결론
    1. 이해관계자 수용성 제고를 위한 지배구조(거버넌스)의 재설계
    2. 육상 보증금제도와의 구조적 차이: 자원 특성과 반환 인프라
    3. 정책 제언
    4. 연구 한계
    5. 결론
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