The Influence of Weather Conditions on the Relative Incident Rate of Fishing Vessels

Wu, Ying; Pelot, Ronald; Hilliard, Carol

doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01217.x

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“…Our analysis covers a wide class of commercial vessels operating under the legislative framework of the SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) convention and extends results that have previously been reported for fishing vessels, as in Jin et al (2001), Wang et al (2005), and Wu et al (2009). With the results of this paper, variations and trends in meteorological conditions can be linked directly to the evaluation of incident risks for the major commercial ship types.…”

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Effects of wind strength and wave height on ship incident risk: Regional trends and seasonality

Heij

Knapp

2015

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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a b s t r a c tOceanographic conditions like wind strength and wave height affect the risk of shipping incidents. Seasonal variations and trends in these effects are studied for weather-related incidents and pollution incidents, for six major ship types and for six regions across the globe. The employed database of more than five million observations combines information from various sources on oceanographic conditions, ship particulars, and incidents. The magnitude of wind and wave effects is found to vary by ship type, region, season, and period, and most of these effects are larger during the autumn and winter season and in recent periods. IntroductionMany maritime administrations and coastal states are nowadays trying to become more proactive in their risk mitigation strategies. Current maritime risk assessments often still ignore various risk dimensions and associated uncertainties (Merrick and Van Dorp, 2006). Van der Hoorn and Knapp (2014) propose a multi-layered approach to incorporate ship-specific risk, vessel traffic densities, and location-specific conditions such as bathymetry, wind, waves, currents, and coastal sensitivities to pollution.For the North Atlantic, it has been reported that oceanographic conditions are changing, with rising sea levels, larger wave height and wind strength, changing wind patterns, and increasing frequency and force of storms (Woolf and Challenor, 2002;Tsimplis et al., 2005;European Parliament, 2007; IPCC, 2007). Meanwhile, new shipping routes are opening up, for example, due to the melting Arctic. Such developments necessitate investigation of the relation between oceanographic conditions and maritime safety, including vessel design aspects like stability and long-term wave stress on the hull structure (IMO, 1995(IMO, , 2005a. Knapp et al. (2011) study the effect of wind strength and wave height on the risk of weather-related incidents for the North Atlantic. The current paper extends this type of risk evaluation to a global level and evaluates risk of weather-related incidents and pollution incidents for six regions across the globe. The focus is on seasonal effects and trends (changes over time) in wind speed and wave height with their impact on incident risk for the following six regions: North Atlantic; East Africa and Indian Ocean; Japan, Korea, and South Chinese Sea; South Atlantic and West Africa; North Pacific; South Pacific and Antarctica. Other relevant physical factors, such as directions of wind and waves and the strength and direction of currents, are not available in the database and are therefore not included in the analysis.

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Effects of wind strength and wave height on ship incident risk: Regional trends and seasonality

Heij

Knapp

2015

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…The literature is limited to case reports and case series of isolated injuries, or high level epidemiological studies [2–6]. While traditional fishing is often associated with minor injuries such as hook punctures, the types of injuries associated with ice-fishing, with its unique environmental risks, is largely unknown [7]. …”

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Injury patterns and outcomes of ice-fishing in the United States

Thiels

Hernandez

Zielinski³

et al. 2016

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine

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Introduction Fishing is a common pastime. In the developed world, it is commonly performed as a recreational activity. We aim to determine injury patterns and outcomes among patients injured while ice fishing. Methods Data on initial emergency department visits from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) from 2009-2014 were analyzed. All patients with fishing related injuries were included. Primary endpoint was rate of admission or transfer. Secondary endpoints were defined a priori anatomical injury categories and patients were assigned into groups. Descriptive and power analysis was performed between patients with ice-fishing and traditional fishing related injuries. Results We identified 8220 patients who sustained fishing related injuries, of which n=85 (1%) involved ice fishing. Ice fishing injuries occurred primarily in males (88%) with a mean age of 39.4 years ± 17.5 (std dev). The most common injuries related to ice fishing were: orthopedic/musculoskeletal (46%), minor trauma (37%), and major trauma (6%). Hot thermal injuries (burns) were the fourth most common type of ice-fishing injury (5%) but rarely occurred in warmer fishing months (<1%, p=0.004). Cold thermal injuries (1%) and hypothermia (0%) were rare among ice-fishing injuries and immersion/drowning occurred in 5% of cases. The rate of admission/transfer was significantly greater in ice-fishing (11%) than the traditional fishing patients 3%, p<0.001), power was 89.7%. Conclusion Ice fishing is associated with more severe injury patterns and more thermal injuries and immersion injuries than traditional fishing. Providers and participants should be aware of the potential risks and benefits and counseled appropriately.

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“…Reported environmental factors that include the need for major wave prediction [66] to prevent weather-related vessel disasters [67,68] deserve more attention in the literature. Wind has been identified as a predictor for dangerous weather.…”

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Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 3. Potential Occupational Risk Reduction Measures

Myers

Durborow

Kane

2018

Safety

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1. Background: Fishers face many occupational hazards that include a high risk of fatal and nonfatal injuries and a variety of adverse health effects. Our purpose is to provide an overview of potential countermeasures for the control of hazards that threaten the health and safety of Gulf of Mexico (GoM) fish harvesters. 2. Method: Search terms were used to identify relevant literature; two previous reviews regarding injuries and health risk factors also inform this review. 3. Results: Countermeasures against these hazards include winch guards, lifting devices, job redesign, non-slip decks and vessel stability controls as well as using personal flotation devices, wearing gloves and high-friction footwear, increasing sleep time and using vessel motion to assist lifting. Knowledge about secondary prevention (such as rescue, first aid and making mayday calls) is also important. Learning through experience is a crucial factor that incorporates other fishers' experiences with innovations. Fatigue and lack of sleep contribute to vessel disasters and injury-related errors. 4. Conclusions: The prevention of injuries and diseases among GoM fishers depends on a combination of focusing on work-processes, instilling a broader safety culture, engineering controls, identifying and sharing fisher innovations, promoting fall overboard prevention and protection and providing culture-based incentives, training and narrative outreach.

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The Influence of Weather Conditions on the Relative Incident Rate of Fishing Vessels

Cited by 45 publications

References 15 publications

Effects of wind strength and wave height on ship incident risk: Regional trends and seasonality

Effects of wind strength and wave height on ship incident risk: Regional trends and seasonality

Injury patterns and outcomes of ice-fishing in the United States

Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 3. Potential Occupational Risk Reduction Measures

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