Potential Fishery Zone (PFZ) Advisories

The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) provides PFZ advisories to 2.75 lakh fishermen on a daily basis to help them to easily locate the areas of abundant fish in the ocean. The number of fisherman receiving the PFZ advisories increased from 1.05 lakh fisherman in 2014 to 2.75 lakh fisherman in 2017.

From 1st January 2014 onwards, the frequency of generation and dissemination of advisories has been increased to daily by utilising data from multiple satellites. Further, the advisory maps have been improved by including the information on Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundary (to avoid crossing by mistake) and surface currents.