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Korean Fishing Industry
 Above: Boats in the Yellow Sea near Mokpo, Korea |
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Korea is surrounded by water with the Yellow Sea on the west and the East Sea/Sea of Japan on the east and the Korea Strait on the south. The fishing industry in Korea is the seventh largest in the world with a catch of 2.9 million metric tons per year. Korea has 6,228 km of coastline and nearly 3,000 islands located mostly in the Yellow Sea and Korea Strait. Only a handful of them lie off the East Sea.
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  Left: Fish Nets |
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