Ocean Information Services

For Livelihood and Sea Safety of Fishermen

 Scientific Know-How for
Societal Benefit
 To address the livelihood and the safety of sea farmers
 Livelihood
 Effective harvesting of fish which are dwindling resources in nature
 Reducing the time for searching of the fish shoals
 Enhance the probability of getting better catches
 Safety
 Understand the state of the Ocean (Winds and Waves)
 Know the movement of Cyclones (Jointly with IMD)
 Plan the fishing operations (navigation path, direction of casting the
nets)
 Provide High Wave Alerts / Tsunami Early Warning Bulletins
 Information effectiveness
 Right information and Timely through various ICT initiatives
PFZ Advisory Services
(Lab – to – Land )

Sea Surface Temperature

Chlorophyll

Satellite Data Key PFZ

Products Indicators Advisories
Species specific fishery
Demand from the Users – Service by INCOIS
advisory Services for
Yellowfin Tuna

 Tuna Fishery
advisories with
SST, Chl, Kd-
490 (Water
Clarity)
 Improvement
in advisories
through the
results of
Telemetry
studies
 Tuna 3D-
advisory with
details of max.
fishing depth
Malayalam Kannada Marathi Gujarati

Tamil Telugu Odiya Bangla Hindi

 PFZ Advisories for
North Andhra Pradesh

PFZ Maps contains information on

Most probable fishing areas Surface Currents
Bathymetry Indian EEZ
Indian Coastline Coastal Districts
Restricted Zones for Fishing Fishing Villages
 Safety at Sea
Wave forecast
• Global, Regional, Coastal, Island, Location-
Specific Wave Forecasts (significant wave
height, wave direction, swell height and
direction, wave period)
• High Wave Alerts; Search and Rescue
Search and Rescue Aid Tool (SARAT)
Mobile App – SARAT
(multilingual)

The Coast Guard

used SARAT to
restrict the search
area and found the
dead body of a
fisherman within
the highest
probability area
predicted by the
model.
 Tsunami Early Warnings

Risk Assessment Detection, Warning, Dissemination Awareness, Response

COMMS Tests
Tsunami Drills
Trainings
Publicity Material

Bathymetry
VSAT
TSUNAMI
Historic EQ DB Seismic Network
WARNINGS!!!

INSAT Capacity Building

Tsunami Modelling

DSS
Paleo tsunami studies BPR Network SOP
GPRS ICT Infra.
Topography
R&D
Paleo-tsunami
Modelling
GNSS Data Use
INMARSAT
Participating Institutions
Tsunami Travel Times Tide gauge Network Costal Vulnerability IMD, NIOT, ICMAM, SOI,
NRSC, INCOIS , MHA, NDMA,
Observation Networks Communications Warning Centre
Coastal States, Academia
 Storm Surge Warnings
Input
Dissemination
Bathymetry/ Modeling
topography

ADCIRC Tide alone WEB

(Spin-up with Tide alone solution
Unstructured simulation at HPC)
Spin-up for 2 months. 320 η u v
mesh processors are using.
E-Mail

Bulletin
ADCIRC + SWAN generation
Atmospheric forcing (Tide + Surge + Wave ) η u v SMS

Output
Inundation
H2010 WRF extent
FAX
Requires track Requires
& intensity or initial
info from IMD conditions
from
NCMRWF

Forcing to the model

Dissemination
 Timely dissemination is our main Criteria
 ICT adoption is our key success factor
 Involvement of Stakeholders at all levels &
Partnering
 Stakeholders:
 NGOs
 Fishery Departments
 Disaster Management Authorities
 Fishermen turned into Master Trainers
 Private Industry
 Academia
 National Research Institutes
 Others (CG, Navy, etc.)
 ICT to reach End Users – Dissemination Modes
GAGAN & NAVIC

Looking
PFZ &
OSF

VKC & VRC

Serving 6.76 Lakhs of Registered Fishermen

Speech Synthesis using AI & ML

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5

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100
 Number of Registered Users (in Lakhs)

6.76

4.02
3.09
2.23
1.17
0.74 0.82

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Similar number of fishermen also must be receiving the

information from secondary channels like, Radio and Electronic
Boards installed at fishing harbours, from colleague fishermen,
other NGOs, Industry, etc
 PFZ

Economic Benefits of
PFZ and OSF

• Benefit by Rs.
OSF
4161.9 crore
during 2013-
15
• Rs 3.7 trillion
“No go The overall
ahead economic
mission” benefits to
advisories to all
Navy industries
Executive Summary of National
Oil-spill
advisory Value
Council of Applied Economic
services to addition for Research (NCAER) Survey Report
Coast ONGC
Guard and Results of PFZ Validation
• Spill of 15,211 • 3.74 trillion at
tonne, cost to be 12% social
Experiments during X – XI Plan
Rs. 89.43 crore discount rate Period
only during 2015
Independent Surveys on Environmental Benefits of PFZ
• 32 fishing boats in Raigad Dt., Maharashtra could save
National Agricultural Innovation the diesel of 70,000 litres of diesel in a month
Project (NAIP)
• CO2 cutting down by 150000 kg

• Saving of diesel varied from 21.47 lt to 1293.53 lt

Validation Experiments • Reduction of CO2 emission from 3.45 t to 0.06 t / every
tonne of fish caught

• Savings in diesel consumption computed an annuity of

National Council for Applied Rs 36,200 crore or
Economic Research • Present value of around Rs.2.84 trillion over the 25-year
useful life

• At 15% adoption level, fishermen can save up to 9,00,000

of litres of Disel
Central Marine Fisheries
• Translates to savings of Rs.468 lakhs
Research Institute (CMFRI)
• Lesser Green House Gas (GHG) emission of
approximately 2412 tonne

From PFZ Validation Experiments

 Fishermen’s Voice
 We are extremely dependent on PFZ for our
livelihood
- Milind Sakhakar, Fishermen, Maharashtra
 The information passed by INCOIS was very
accurate and useful
- Lishil, Fishermen, Kerala
 Motivated to buy and use gillnets to make use of the
PFZ advisory to its full potential
- Krishna Mallikarjuna, Fishermen, Kakinada
 Fishing in PFZ is more economical; the number of
days we spend in the sea has come down
considerably and there is reduction in the diesel
expenses too
- D. Tata Rao, Fishermen, SuryaraoPeta, E.G.
Dist. AP.
 MSSRF-INCOIS Fisheries Helpline Service is a great
boon to us
- Rajkumar, Nagoor Pattinacherry, Nagapattinam
 I am able to educate my sons it is mainly because of
fishing through gillnetting in PFZ
- Edukondalu, fishermen, Gilakaladindi, Andhra
Pradesh
 It was remarkable information making our day of
fishing much portable with progressive fishing
- K Satyanarayana, Fishermen, AndhraPradesh
 I was happy that we could get more catch in less time
- K Kumar, Fishermen, Orissa
 Had I not got the information I would have
incurred a loss of nearly 2.5 lakhs & our lives
also would have been at risk
- Bandi Rao, Fishermen, Orissa
 I am sure with these advisories the fishers will
definitely be able to improve their lives and
livelihood
- Ch Satish, Fishermen, E.G. Dist. AP
 I am happy to say that without wasting
energy, time & diesel we sold the catch
- Maran, Fishermen, Kanchipuram.
 I and other fishers find the PFZ information
very helpful in getting quality and increased
catch
- M Narayanarao, Fishermen, Krishna
 I am planning to increase the storage capacity
in my boat as we get more quantity of fish
- Satish Kumar, Fishermen, Chennai
 I must say that there is a difference in the
quantity/quality of fish catch by using PFZ
points
- Ravi Kumar, Fishermen, Chennai
The PFZ information has given a new
lease of life to the fishermen
community - Prof. M. S.
Swaminathan, MSSRF, Chennai
 PFZ Advisory Services were
recognized by the International Community as a matured operational application of
satellite remote sensing for providing timely and reliable advisories to fishermen
( a Lab – to – Land service for common man)

Our Users are Our Strength, their needs are our Motivation

THANK YOU