Chungnam to discover mid-career fishermen to drive fisheries industry

The Fisheries Resources Research Institute of South Chungcheong Province recently announced that it is recruiting applicants for its Fisheries Business Manager Development Program until the 27th of this month to discover young and middle-aged fishermen who will lead the future of the fishing industry. This year's selected candidates will include 65 successors to fishermen and 10 excellent fishermen, totaling 75 people, which is 12.3% of the 606 nationwide. The selection criteria for successors to fishermen are individuals aged between 18 and under 50 who are either exempt from military service or have completed it, including women, and have no more than 10 years of fishing experience. Excellent managers are those who are 60 years old or younger, have been managing their own fishing business for at least five years after being selected as a successor to a fisherman (or three years for those selected before 2019), or are new marine and fisheries experts. However, those who have had ...