A team from the School of Industrial Fisheries, Cochin University of Science and Technology, conducted a two-day study on climate change after tsunami which hit the coastal areas of the district.
The director of School of Industrial Fisheries of Cochin University, K.T. Thomsons, told The Hindu here on Monday that field studies were conducted at Puthupettai, Akkarapettai, and Vedaranyam and interacted with fishermen on climate change after the impact of tsunami under “Adaptation Research and Trans-disciplinary Community and Policy Central Approach (ARTISTICC)”.
It was a project that sought to analyze how knowledge, in all dimensions, may be mobilised to foster coastal adaptation to climate change. The detailed studies on community oriented views and suggestions on climate change would be submitted to the Centre to implement various rejuvenation programmes, including the depletion of marine resources.
The general secretary of South Asian Fishermen Fraternity, Father Churchil, said that many fishermen in the coastal areas complained the lack of catch in seawater as it drifted towards Sri Lankan water. The fishermen could not predict the changes in the sea after tsunami and it was evident that Singaravelan, a fisherman from Puthupettai, told the team members that recently he returned to shore after seeing giant waves at mid-sea which was rare in this season.
