Experts and stakeholders participating in a workshop organised by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) here on Tuesday stressed the need to recalibrate disaster risk to ensure the safety of fishermen at sea and make coastal communities more resilient to disasters in the light of the lessons learnt from Cyclone Ockhi. Delivering the opening remarks, Additional Chief Secretary P.H. Kurian said the government was working on an early warning system for fishermen. He said the satellite-based NAVIC system was being tweaked to provide two-way communication. The workshop was organised with the support of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN to take stock of the situation after cyclone Ockhi. Mr. Kurian said efforts were on to equip seagoing vessels with short wave radio sets on a trial basis to supplement the NAVIC and sea mobile systems already in use. The government was preparing to implement a ?2,000-cr project to develop the coastal areas and make coastal communities more resilient by taking forward the relief activities for the victims of cyclone Ockhi. Speakers highlighted the fact that Cyclone Ockhi, unlike other storms in the past, had taken a heavy toll on fishermen at sea rather than causing death and destruction on land. A ICSF study noted that the disproportionate number of deaths at sea during cyclone Ockhi necessitated a recalibration of disaster risk to include threats to fishers at sea.