They fabricated and promulgated the laws and regulations for plundering marine resources and set up machinery for the purpose.

In order to ensure their pillage by law, the invaders promulgated the evil "Fishery Act", its enforcement regulations and the like in June 1911.

According to the act, the Japanese imperialists preferentially gave the fishery right to the Japanese fishermen and fishery monopolies under their protection and forcibly robbed the Korean fishermen of their fishing ground.

The number of "obtaining the chartered fishery right" by the Japanese in Korea reached more than 2,680 cases during the 10 years from 1911 to 1920.

Therefore, the right to monopoly of marine resources and the fishery right in Korea were seized by the Japanese imperialists.

Following the fabrication of all evil laws and machinery, they left no stone unturned to extort the precious marine resources of Korea.

They sent many Japanese fishermen and fishing boats to Korea and made the fishing boats motorized and large-sized.

The number of the Japanese fishing boats which caught fish in the Korean seas grew from over 5,650 in 1912 to over 10,620 in 1916.

The pillage of the marine resources by the Japanese imperialists was intensified entering the 1930s.

At that time, they forced the Korean fishermen to increase fish production under the pretext of "fishing village promotion campaign".

In an attempt to realize their predatory ambition, the Japanese imperialists compelled Korean fishermen to deep-sea fishing with small wooden boats only to kill lots of them.

For the purpose of meeting the demand for ever growing military supplies, the Japanese imperialists were also hell bent on taking away sardine which amounted to 50 percent of the total fish catch in Korea at that time.

The Korean fishermen had to live a miserable life owing to the Japanese imperialists' brutal plunder of abundant marine resources.

The Japanese authorities must completely liquidate the crime-woven past.