The extensive damage caused to the fishing industry by the rampaging Hurricane Beryl has led to urgent calls for a radical overhaul of climate resilience strategies. The wreckage of fishing boats caused by the storm and the likelihood of even more severe hurricanes due to climate change were on the forefront of the minds of government ministers as they debated the Marine Transport Emissions Control Bill on Tuesday.“We have to rethink resilience; previously resilience meant that you would get hit by a hurricane in 1985, and you would be unlikely to be hit again until 1995 or beyond. The new climate crisis presents us with the unfortunate reality where you can be hit by a Category 5 hurricane in June - the first ever recorded in history - and then be hit again by a Category 5 hurricane in July. We have to rethink resilience,” advised Kirk Humphrey, the former Minister of the Blue Economy, during Tuesday’s discussion.“No person has a blueprint for what we are dealing with. Therefore, leadership is often the art of informed improvisation. We now have to reflect on the things we did and try new approaches. The level of resilience required now is not what we are used to,” he said. Humphrey’s successor, the current minister, Adrian Forde, echoed these sentiments, painting a vivid picture of the destruction wrought by Beryl.Forde suggested that Beryl had brought on a new level of coastal assault, smashing through sea defences that had survived previous hurricanes for over three decades, and recommended tripling the size of wave-dissipating blocks.