A RISK EXAMINATION OF FISHERY PORTS AND FISHERMAN'S UNIONS IN WAKAYAMA PREFECTURE AGAINST NANKAI TROUGH GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

Abstract

 The fishery of Wakayama prefecture is the core industry and many fishery ports are put in place around the Kii peninsula. In this study, we extract the present states and problems by questionnaire survey for the fishermen's union and examine the characteristics of the anticipated tsunami damage such as inundation depth, temporal limitation time for evacuation of fisher-boats against tsunami by using the announced simulation results. As a result, the consciousness of regional differences on Nankai Trough Great Earthquake and tsunami, stagnation of cooperation between other organizations and oblivion of past disaster information were confirmed. Moreover, the importance of pre-making rule on evacuation of fisher-boats against tsunami was pointed out.