China
Fujian Fishing Ports

 Description                                                      Country Challenge
 Purpose: To reduce the vulnerability of fishing                  China’s coast is regularly hit by storms and has the highest
 communities to extreme weather events in selected                typhoon landfalls in the world. With increasing frequency of
 counties in Fujian province.                                     typhoons, Fujian Province suffered the Saomai typhoon in
 Expected Results (include):                                      2006 killing 241 people and damaging 2000 vessels.
 • Benefit 11,000 fishermen and their families (total             Fishery is a fundamental pillar of the local economy.
   64,000 people).
 • Protect about 3,000 fishing vessels in ports.                  Project Goals
 • Improve effectiveness of early warning and
   emergency systems.
                                                                  The project supports construction and upgrading of fishing
                                                                  port facilities in six locations to provide shelters to protect
 IBRD Financing: US$60 million
                                                                  fishing vessels from being lost or damaged during
                                                                  typhoons and seasonal storms. The project also supports
                                                                  improving the early warning and emergency and response
                                                                  system, which triggers actions by government and fishery
                                                                  communities at different typhoon warning levels.




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For more information: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P129791?lang=en




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