Mayors, County Governors and District Heads to Supervise Fishing Village Societies Amendment of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act Planned

 

- Tuesday, November 19 - Monday, December 30 Legislative notice to the partial amendment of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act

 

 ➊ Key contents of amendment of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act

 

 This amendment includes a provision to upgrade matters related to establishing and withdrawing fishing village societies as stipulated in the enforcement decree to Act status. The current law only stipulates the basis for establishing a fishing village society with local fisheries cooperative members as its members, and matters necessary for managing fishing village societies are comprehensively delegated to the enforcement decree; hence the difficulty of the government in managing fishing village societies systematically.

 

 Through this amendment, MOF plans to improve the system so that the mayors, county governors, or district heads (hereinafter referred to as "mayors, etc.") who has the authority to approve the establishment of a fishing village society can be granted the authority to supervise and guide the work of the fishing village association and some of the guidance and supervision work can be delegated to the heads of the local fisheries cooperative in the district. Moreover, it stipulates that mayors, etc., who identify the fishing village society's work or accounting to be in violation of the law can issue a corrective order and suspend the business of those who do not comply with the corrective order.

 

 In addition, the amendment sets forth the basis for checking and reporting candidates' criminal records for fisheries cooperative executive elections to meet the demand for amendment, such as revising difficult terms to common expressions.

 

 ➋ Key contents of the amendment of the Enforcement Decree of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act

 

 Although the Framework Act on Fisheries and Fishing Village Development and the Fisheries Act include the business of salt production in the scope of the fisheries industry, the business is excluded from the qualifications for membership in industry-specific fisheries cooperatives; thus, “a business that produces salt by naturally evaporating seawater in salt farms” was added.

 

 The partial amendments of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act and its Enforcement Decree are available on the MOF website, and any person or organization with opinions can submit them to the Fisheries Policy Bureau of MOF, MOF website, or Public Participation Legislative Center website.

 

 “As the need for government guidance and supervision of fishing village societies has arisen to secure fishing order in fishing villages, this amendment aims to establish a reasonable management system for fishing village societies. We will continue to improve the system by reflecting the voices of fishermen in the field,” Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Kang Do-hyung said.