SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Fishing villages are suffering from manpower shortages as foreign sailors have been blocked from entering South Korea due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection. Some eight to nine crew members are needed for a single blue crab fishing boat. Under current laws, up to two foreign sailors [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees working in the cold storage warehouses at the international fisheries wholesale market in Busan are fighting against the cold despite the sizzling temperatures outdoors. The temperature of the freezer on the third floor of the building, which makes ice for the fishing industry, remains at -8 degrees Celsius. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Outdoor gear and clothing stores in South Korea, stricken with a prolonged downturn in demand, are tapping into fishing gear to win back customers, as more and more people are intrigued by fishing thanks to a Korean television program about fishermen. Millet, K2, Columbia and other outdoor brands are scrambling to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Where Kim Ki-hoon and his friends go to play golf, the grass is always green and the weather is always perfect, unless the players do not want them that way. That is why the group of four prefers indoor, simulated screen golf clubs to actual courses, especially during the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of researchers at the Korea Polar Research Institute published a report in the online journal “Scientific Reports” on August 17 detailing the gentoo penguin’s communication patterns. A group of Korean researchers conducted their study at King Sejong Station on Antarctica’s King George Island. By capturing and attaching [...]
BUSAN, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Data released on Thursday by the Cetacean Research Center (National Fisheries Research & Development Institute) has revealed that a total of 434 whales have been killed in incidental catch so far this year. According to officials, short-beaked common dolphins were the biggest victims in 2017 at 330, followed by [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Friday it will release 6,700 tons of its fisheries stock starting next week to keep prices under control during the fishing prohibition period. The prohibition period began April 1 and will continue to Aug. 11, depending on different types of net fishing. Violators are subject to [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Tension between Korea and China is intensifying as illegal Chinese fishing in Korean waters continues unabated amid controversy surrounding Korea’s deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system. In a letter of complaint to the Chinese Embassy in Seoul last year, the Korean National [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s offshore fisheries output sank to a 44-year low in 2016 due to tumbling fish stocks caused by a combination of Chinese illegal fishing, climate change and overfishing, a report showed Monday. The country’s inshore and offshore fisheries production came to 923,000 tons last year, down 12.7 percent [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean waters have become dangerous habitat for finless porpoises, sometimes referred to in Korea as “smiling whales” for their grinning faces. According to the Ulsan Coast Guard, a total of 9,710 whales died in the five-year period from 2011 to 2015 from either illegal poaching or unintended catch in [...]