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[Asia Economy Reporter Jusangdon Joo] The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries' 'Fisheries and Fishing Ports Regeneration Project Planning Team,' dedicated to the Fishermen's Village New Deal 300 project, will officially launch on Tuesday, December 29.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that they will implement the 'Partial Amendment to the Organization Regulations of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and Its Affiliated Agencies' on the 29th, which includes the establishment of the Fisheries and Fishing Ports Regeneration Project Planning Team dedicated to the Fishermen's Village New Deal 300 project.

The Fishermen's Village New Deal 300 project is an integrated development initiative for fishing villages and ports that modernizes essential infrastructure such as deteriorated piers and promotes specialized development reflecting regional characteristics to revitalize local economies. Through this project, a total of 300 sites will be selected by 2022, and approximately 3 trillion KRW (2.1 trillion KRW in national funds and 900 billion KRW in local funds) will be invested by 2024 to advance fishing village and port development. Currently, projects at 70 sites selected in 2019 and 120 sites selected in 2020 are underway, and on December 9, 60 sites for 2021 were selected and announced.

Until now, the Fishermen's Village New Deal 300 project has been promoted through the temporary organization, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries Innovation Growth Job Planning Team. However, as large-scale national finances are being invested and the number of managed project sites increases, the need to establish a dedicated organization has grown. After consultations between the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the dedicated organization was established.

The Fisheries and Fishing Ports Regeneration Project Planning Team will be newly established as a temporary organization (for three years) with nine members directly under the Vice Minister. Considering the connection with fisheries and fishing port development tasks, the Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy Division of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries will concurrently serve as the head, and a new Fisheries and Fishing Ports Regeneration Division will be created as a subordinate organization.

Through the establishment of this dedicated organization, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries expects that the Fishermen's Village New Deal 300 project will be promoted more systematically and substantively, strengthening the public's fundamental right to maritime transportation, popularizing marine tourism and leisure, and creating a sustainable fishing village economic ecosystem by enhancing the self-sufficiency and competitiveness of fishing villages, thereby laying the foundation for new jobs and tourism resource creation.

In addition, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries plans to establish the 'Fisheries and Fishing Ports Regeneration Development Plan,' a mid- to long-term plan until 2030, next year to lay the foundation for revitalizing fishing villages and ports through regeneration, and to build a performance evaluation system covering all stages of the project. A total of 70 projects, including the first pilot site Manjaehang, are expected to be completed.

Planning Team Head Suho Lee said, "Building on the launch of the dedicated organization, we will create tangible results that fishing village residents and the public can feel, and systematically promote and manage the project so that these results continue to be maintained as assets of the fishing villages even after project completion."

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