Act on Securing, Management, Use of Marine Bio-Resources.

The purpose of this Act is to promote efficient and sustainable use of marine bio-resources, strengthen sovereignty over marine bio-resources, ensure competitiveness of marine biotechnology, and contribute to the development of national economy by prescribing matters necessary to secure, manage, and use marine bio-resources comprehensively and systematically. Marine bio-resources shall be secured, managed, and used in compliance with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the following basic concepts: (1) Marine bio-resources shall be secured, managed, and used in a sustainable manner for present and future generations; (2) Marine bio-resources shall be managed comprehensively to ensure the ecological and economic value of marine bio-resources can be maintained harmoniously; (3) Opportunities to fairly and equally share benefits arising from commercial use of marine bio-resources shall be increased.
In order to achieve this purpose the Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs shall prepare measures by establishing an integrated information system for marine bio-resources and maintenance of statistics of marine bio-resources; by creating a system for securing, managing, and using marine bio-resources; and by training professional human resources for marine bio-resources and establishing a support system for basic research.