Disaster Management in Fisheries

5.1.5 Institutional mechanisms

The most important need at the national level is to strengthen or develop the capacity to undertake disaster-mitigation strategies. There is a need to emphasize on proactive and pre-disaster measures rather than post-disaster response. It is, thus, essential to have a permanent administrative structure which can monitor the developmental activities across departments and provides suggestions for necessary mitigation measures. The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) can perform such a task. Professionals like architects, structural engineers, doctors, and chemical engineers who are involved with management of hazardous chemicals, can be asked to form groups that can design specific mitigation measures.