Oceans 5 support allows CIES, KFEM and APIL to form a network and implement a collaborative program of work that will attain improvements to transparency in South Korea’s distant water/domestic fishing fleets; achieve benchmarked improvements to the legal framework for fisheries control and labor conditions in Korea’s distant water fleets in line with international best practice; implement fisheries (both domestic and distant water) and labor legislation in Korea; and get Korean industries incorporate IUU fishing and human rights risks into their due diligence processes.
This proposal was developed in collaboration with the Oak Foundation and multiple international and national NGOs in Korea. The Korea IUU coalition is a partnership of environmental and human rights-focused organizations, which pull their expertise from respective fields to address IUU fishing. The coalition will work to amend and introduce fisheries-related and migrant fishers’ labor rights-related laws to improve the industry’s legal obligations; strengthen the Korean fisheries’ compliance with international standards both as a port state (port inspection) and a flag state (E-Monitoring); and educate the public and the National Assembly on the need to act now for a change in current fisheries practices.
