South Korea’s fishermen keep dying. The seas around Korea are warming more rapidly than the global average, in part because they tend to be shallower. Between 1968 and 2024, the average surface temperature of the country’s seas increased by 1.58C, more than double the global rise of 0.74C.

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1. Fishes i guess? Or just fish?

2. >Professor Gug Seung-gi led the investigation into the recent accidents, which found that South Korea’s seas appear to have become more dangerous. **It noted the number of marine weather warnings around the Korean Peninsula – alerting fishermen to gales, storm surges, and typhoons – increased by 65% between 2020 and 2024.**

   Yeow, 65% is horrific. Of course they’re being conservative in saying that ‘more long-term data is needed”, but hey – this is what’s happening *now*, and it needs to be addressed.

   Companies that contract the fishermen also need to stop sending out boats for catches that are not yielding good numbers. If they cannot be relied upon to allow fish, cran and squid numbers to grow (standard conservation practices) then South Korea needs to start implementing them.

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