Discussing ways to restore squid resources between South Korean and Japanese fisheries organizations

The Korea-Japan Private Fisheries Council agreed to discuss squid resource evaluation and recovery plans with fishermen's groups and fisheries resource experts to protect squid resources, which have recently been rapidly decreasing in Northeast Asian waters. The Korea Fisheries Association (Chairman Jeong Young-hoon) and the Japan Fisheries Association (Chairman Masaaki Edamoto) held the 17th Korea-Japan Private Fisheries Council in Jeju on the 6th to inspect the status of private fishery cooperation between the two countries and discuss the same. We discussed measures to protect fisheries resources, with the main focus being (photo). At this meeting, both sides expressed serious concerns about the rapid decline in squid stocks circulating in waters of both countries and reached a consensus on the need to prepare measures through information sharing between related countries. To this end, it was decided to discuss specific implementation plans through the private squid fishing ...