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The purpose of the study is to provide improvement plans of the Korean fisheries resource assessment and management system responding to the TPP agreement. Having included subsidies issues based on status of the fisheries resources, the TPP agreement hastens positive changes in the Korean fisheries resource assesment and management system. This study compares the fisheries resource assesment and management systems of Korea and major participating nations of the TPP agreement as aspects of information provision of fisheries resource assessment results, application of the various fisheries assessment models, index development of the fisheries resource status, improvement of the fishing reporting and statistic systems, changes into just species-oriented resource assessment, implementation of the market-oriented fisheries management, and expansion of the human and material resources for the fisheries resource assessment. In conclusion, this study provides improvement plans of the Korean fisheries resource assessment and management system in two aspects of the policy directions and the alternatives to overcome environment issues related with fisheries subsidies of the TPP agreement. The alternatives are composed of 7 plans such as set-up of fisheries management standard related with fisheries resource rebuilding and enhancement, applications of various stock assesment models, development of the fish stock sustainability index, improvement of reporting and monitoring systems, conversion into the species-oriented resource assessment, implementation of the ITQ system for a certain species, and expansion of research infra and trainers.