수산업 경영이양 활성화를 위한 수산전문인력 양성방안 연구

Abstract

In line with post-1970s industrialization, the manpower shortage in fishing villages has been fueled by rapid desertion; young adults and middle-aged people have tended to avoid fishing by migrating to cities, driving the emergence of a national issue in terms of securing fisheries management succession. For the fisheries industry to maintain competitiveness, we need to cultivate young adults and middle-aged people to be leaders of the domestic fishing industry through promoting inspiration for the fishing industry, teaching fisheries expert knowledge, and fostering the ability to promote business. In addition to safe supply of marine products through continued fisheries operation, securing young and skilful workers is essential in order to promote balance development of domestic industries, including job creation. The study therefore seeks to provide measures to foster specialists in order to enable the transfer of management through an opinion survey of fishermen. To cultivate specialists for enabling the transfer of management, the following solution should be promoted at the state level. First, to support the introduction of young and talented workers to the fisheries industry through transfer of management, government support and improvement of essential system should be promoted, such as the establishment of a tailored training program for fisheries to have competitiveness as an industry, and various support measures for young people to settle down in the industry. Second, in order to enable the transfer of management, change is required first in the fisheries industry for it to become a value-added industry. Hence, practical management-related education should be systematized, such as the expansion of professional training organization and education, continued retraining of existing fishermen, education related to development of new production technology and improvement of cultivation, information management technology, leisure education, law-related education, and education related to distribution for direct trading. Third, despite fisheries being a composite industry that is syncretized to tertiary industries from primary industries, the fisheries industry is still recognized as a labor intensive industry, which reflects the current status of fisheries education. We need cutting-edge technology so that young and skilled workers can engage in the fisheries industry the vision in the field. For this, improvement is required in the education process to enhance field conformity of not only fisheries high schools, but also fisheries universities, and a change to introduce tailored-education systems.