Fishery byproducts are produced incidentally  from fishing, extracting, farming, processing and selling fishery products, and only some of them are recycled, even though a larger amount of these byproducts is discarded compared to other agricultural and livestock products. Most of them are disposed of as site waste, increasing a burden on fishers.

During this process, a variety of environmental problems are also caused, polluting landscapes and the environment as they are dumped, buried, left unattended, or create wastewater and odor.

However, although fishery byproducts contain many useful ingredients such as calcium and protein, hold great recycling value, and have the potential to be resources for recycling into food ingredients, fertilizers, feed, drug products, and cosmetics, 300 kg or more of fishery products produced per day are classified as industrial waste under the Wastes Control Act, wasting these precious resources, increasing the burden on fishers, and calling for a legal basis for the recycling of fishery byproducts.

In this regard, this Act aims to legislate for the promotion of fishery byproduct recycling in an effort to process fishery byproducts in an eco-friendly and sanitary way, turn them into resources again, facilitate recycling, and use fishery resources more efficiently.

Details

A. Require the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries to establish a fishery byproduct recycling master plan every 5 years in consultation with the head of the relevant central administrative agency and Mayor/Do Governor to process fishery byproducts in an eco-friendly and sanitary way and promote recycling (Article 5)

B. Require the Special Self-Governing City Mayor, Special Self-Governing Province Governor, and the head of the Si/Gun/Gu to investigate the amount of fishery byproducts produced annually and require the head of the Si/Gun/Gu to submit the investigation results to the Mayor/Do Governor (Article 6)

C. Require a person who wants to do a fishery byproduct treatment business (fishery byproduct collection or transport / fishery byproduct intermediate treatment) to have the facilities, equipment, and personnel required for fishery byproduct treatment and obtain approval from the Mayor/Do Governor (Article 9)

D. Allow the Mayor/Do Governor to impose up to 100 million won in penalty surcharges instead of the suspension of business if ordered for a fishery byproduct treatment business owner (Article 14)

E. Require the fishery byproduct treatment business owner to declare to the Mayor/Do Governor the fact that his/her business is closed temporarily or permanently, or reopened (Article 15)

Require a person who wants to do a fishery byproduct treatment business (fishery byproduct collection or transport / fishery byproduct intermediate treatment) to have the facilities, equipment, and personnel required for fishery byproduct treatment and obtain approval from the Mayor/Do Governor (Article 9)