Beyond the Next Season: South Korea’s Long Game for Fisheries Management

From IUU crackdowns to tech-driven, climate-smart, rules-based seas.

The submarine USS Annapolis (front), ​U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan (C), and South Korean and Japan warships seen during a combined trilateral anti-submarine exercise in East Sea, South Korea, on Sept. 30, 2022. South Korean Defense Ministry via Getty Images

Commentary

The oceans are often likened to Earth’s lungs. In practice, they function more like a global circulatory system. What moves through them—fish, nutrients, pollutants, vessels, people, and even data—flows through a single, connected network that none of us owns and all of us rely on.