January 30, 2020 — The United States has removed South Korea from a preliminary list of countries that had potential for illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) just four months after it was put on the list, according to a report in Business Korea.
The country had been listed back in September, and was identified in NOAA’s “Improving International Fisheries Management” report as a country that had failed to sufficiently combat known IUU incidents. That listing was coupled with a first-ever complaint by the U.S., which consisted of a request for environment consultations under the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.