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The products of fisheries have been an important component of the world food supply for centuries. The number of global capture fisheries has increased in response to the demands of rising human population.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations began keeping statistics on world fisheries production in the 1950s; since then, the annual catch from capture fisheries has increased from about 25 million tonnes to approximately 95 million tonnes. Most authorities feel that capture fisheries around the world are exploited to or possibly beyond their sustainable limit. For its part, aquaculture has been growing in importance: in 2004 the supply from aquaculture reached 59 million tonnes, or 38.1 per cent of world fisheries production. The world’s population will continue to grow and demand for products from fisheries will also rise accordingly. Aquaculture must step in to meet this increasing demand, for the catch by capture fisheries apparently cannot be increased. Meteorology plays an important role in fisheries because solar radiation and air temperature influence water temperature, which in turn affects the natural productivity of inland and marine waters and the growth of fisheries species (Kapetsky, 2000). .

Weather conditions also have a tremendous effect on the ability of fishermen to capture fish and other aquatic organisms, and on the safety of fishermen. Nonetheless, fishing, like hunting and gathering, primarily involves the exploitation of living resources from natural populations; the management of these resources is limited largely to regulations on capture. Aquaculture will soon surpass fisheries as the major source of aquatic protein, just as agriculture surpassed hunting and gathering as a source of meat, grain and other foods.

• Sea state forecast
• Tsunami Alert
• Sea Conditions at Cyclone time
• Storm Surgy
• Weather forecast on Sea surface for ships

FLOOD

Flooding is an overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry. Floods can happen during heavy rains, when ocean waves come on shore, when snow melts quickly, or when dams or levees break. ... Flash floods occur when heavy rainfall exceeds the ability of the ground to absorb it. The primary effects of flooding include loss of life and damage to buildings and other structures, including bridges, sewerage systems, roadways, and canals. Floods also frequently damage power transmission and sometimes power generation, which then has knock-on effects caused by the loss of power.

This includes loss of drinking water treatment and water supply, which may result in loss of drinking water or severe water contamination. It may also cause the loss of sewage disposal facilities. Lack of clean water combined with human sewage in the flood waters raises the risk of waterborne diseases, which can include typhoid, giardia, cryptosporidium, cholera and many other diseases depending upon the location of the flood. "This happened in 2000, as hundreds of people in Mozambique fled to refugee camps after the Limpopo River flooded their homes. They soon fell ill and died from cholera, which is spread by unsanitary conditions, and malaria, spread by mosquitoes that thrived on the swollen river banks." Damage to roads and transport infrastructure may make it difficult to mobilize aid to those affected or to provide emergency health treatment.

Flood waters typically inundate farm land, making the land unworkable and preventing crops from being planted or harvested, which can lead to shortages of food both for humans and farm animals. Entire harvests for a country can be lost in extreme flood circumstances. Some tree species may not survive prolonged flooding of their root systems

• Power sector damage estimation
• Agriculture Damage Estimation
• Roads damage estimation
• Casuality of Human beings and Animals

Agro-meteorology has become an important tool in agriculture and it can be equally useful in aquaculture. Meteorological data are already used in aquaculture (Szumiec, 1983; Boyd and Tucker, 1998; Kapetsky, 2000). Nevertheless, there have been few attempts to organize the effort so that the acquisition and application of meteorological data may also serve as a tool for practical aqua culturists and become an important part of the training of aquaculture scientists.

The purpose of this report is to discuss the application of meteorological data in fisheries and especially in aquaculture. It is hoped that this discussion will encourage the application of existing agro-meteorological information to aquatic animal production and stimulate research on the topic.