The government has recently established and activated the "Serious Accidents Punishment Act" as part of measures to prevent such serious accidents, considering that large-scale human life accidents(death and injury) occured in various industries have been issued as a major social problem. Meanwhile, the government believes that the root cause of these accidents is mainly due to the lack of organizational culture or safety management system of firms. The Serious Accidents Punishiment Act is one of the preventative measures against continuous occurrences of industrial human accidents, but it is difficult to enforce such legal regulatory measures in the domestic fisheries with relatively poor working conditions and small-scale businesses compared to other industries. Moreover, the government has not sufficiently provided guidelines for minimizing social confusion in the application of the “Serious Accident Punishment Act” in the fishing sector and for implementing this law more efficiently. Accordingly, this study will examine current status of fishing vessel accidents and life damages, and various types of fishery disasters that may be subject to the "Serious Accident Punishment Act". Furthermore, surveying and analyzing commercial fishers' awareness of risk factors that may occur in major fishing processes intends to provide basic data necessary to prepare measures to stabilize the fisheries management system through the prevention and management of serious disasters. Also, this ultimately aims to prepare countermeasures to prevent serious disasters in the fishery sector in advance.