Detailed rules on the protection and increase of fishery resources of the D.P.R. of Korea

Detailed Rules on the protection and increasing of fishery resources of D.P.R. of Korea Ch~pter 1 General Regulations 1. These rules shall be applied to all institutions, enterprises, cooperative corp and to the foreigners in our country and foreign inhabitants in our country. 2. "Fishery resources" means aquatic animals and plants such as fishes; bivalve, echinoderm, crustacea, aquatic animal seaweeds living in the sea, rivers and streams, reservours and lakes. 3. Fishery resources are governed, protected, managed in a unified way and developed and utilized rationally for the economic development and for the protection of people's life of our country. a. The work to ptotect and increase fishery resources is supervised and controlled in a un i.f i.ed 1·ray hy the },.,nd management orCan. b. The organ for protecting and sup0rvising fishery resources has to devide a certain water territory to the organs and enterprises concerned .'" and competent organs and enterprises of utilizing thec'water terri tory should protect and increase the f'Lshe ry resources responsibly and u t I Li.ze it rationally. c. Fishery resources have to be developed and utilized plannely according to the state pl~n. Fishery scientific institutions should register the quality of the fishery resources to organs of protecting and supervisin~ fishery resources every time they investigated and the state planning authorities has to set up the fishery 1 production plan on the basis of the datas recognized by the protecting and sl,lpervising:organ for fishery resources, without the agreement of the pro tecting and supervisin~ organ for fishery resources can not be set up the fishery production plan. 4. Foreigners are not allowed to investigate on the fishery resources in protecting waters of fishery resources and also to catch fishes, shelfish and aquatic animals and seaweed on their own will. Chapter 2 Protecting and increasing fishery resources 1. Protecting and super-viai.ng organs for fishery resources and fishery' organs and enterprises and the fishery scientific rese~~ch institutions have to usually im-estigate and cintrol the state of fishery r-esour-ces and its chan ges and should take measure to protect and increase the fishery resources. 2. The protecting and supervising organ for fishery resources una orGans and enterprises for deve l.opi.ng and ut i Li.z i ng; fishery resources, have to posi tivcly protect and increase the fishery resource::: including echinoderm, scallop, clam, abalone, flatfish, sculpin, rockfish, sea cucumber, earchine crab, spawn, undaria, laminaria, and anfeltia. 3. At the time when fishen spawn and breed in the fishing ground, rivers '.~"'''''''''''' . ~ "". ..... ~-"-.~,,,,",--,,,, . .,,""""""......... , . ,"--............ • ..J and sreams, reservours and lakes, fishes auG sea plants are not allowed to be caught. But the fishes and sea plants are allowed to be caught in the following cases even if at the time of spawning and breeding. a. In case the authorized organs and enterprises for utiliZing the waters wage to the work of collection of eggs for artificial breeding. 2 b. The case in which aquatic animals and plants including seaweeds and bivalve are bro~ght up by artificially and caught. c. In case'~hey ca~ch fishes by hooking. fixed net or gillnet. d. Incase they catch the aquatic animals and plants for the purpose of the scientific research work and investigating work. 4. The biological objects designated by the state have to be paricularly protected and increased. 5. The organs and enterprises for the fishing eround should organize the work to protect and increase fishery resources prospectedly and plannely. 6. The designated size of net should be used in catching aquatiu animals and plants and young fishes should not be caught. 7. Harnful oaterials such as fertilizers, spent water and sewage should not be poured into rivers, lakes and seas. Chapter 3 Order of fishes catching and management of fishing ground 1. When somebody intends to develope, utili7.8 and inve~tigate fishery resources within the protection area of fishery resources, they shall receive the allowance issued by the protecting and supervising organ of fishery resources, 2. Institutions and enterprises hoping to develop and utili~e fishery resources should present an application for the recognition of utili7.:ing f'Lshe ry resources to supervising authority of the city and country concerned. 3. The period of the allowance of catching fish should be one year, utilizing the grounds of fish culture from three years to six years and 3 utilizing the fishing ground of fixed net 3 years or shorter than it. 4. :ror the kinds of aquatic animals and 'plants to be particularly protected, because of their rapid decreasing, the central fishery protection and supervisine authoritY. should designate every season. 5. Fixed net should be installed in the presence of the protecting and supervising organ of fishery resources. 6. Organs and enterprises to catch fishes in the sea should get licenses of catching issued by protecting and supervising authority of fishery resources. 7. All citizens can fiah by hook: in the rivers, streames, reser vours and lakes. Chapter 4 Supervision and control on the protection and increasing of fishery resources 1. The work of protection and increasing of fish reources and utilization shall be waged by protection and supervising institution of fishery resources. 2. When the works that hinder the protection and increasing development and utilization of fishery resources or harmful to fishery resources are occured these should be checked or to be deprived of the all licenses for fish products according to its degree and of its licenses for catching fish and for utilizing fishery utilization. 4