ABSTRACT: This study provides a baseline measure of pelagic fish species diversity around fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Western Indian Ocean. Using data from visual censuses made by SCUBA ...

Across the world’s oceans float thousands of rafts, placed there by fishermen to try and increase their catches. Although this technique has been used for centuries, its increasing prevalence and ...

Biologists studying tropical tuna fisheries aimed to establish if the use of drifting fish aggregation devices, a technique employed increasingly for industrial-scale tuna fishery, could act as just ...

FADS often consist of floating rafts with dangling materials, like netting or ropes, to mimic the shade and shelter that smaller fish naturally seek beneath floating debris, Tunnell said. As a result, ...

ABSTRACT: The silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis is the primary elasmobranch bycatch in the global tuna purse seine fishery using fish aggregating devices (FADs). Information on the associative ...

The Palm Beach Post article “What in the world are those things washing up on Florida’s beaches?” (Feb. 27) calls attention to an important environmental issue. However, international efforts to ...

Recent comments by Indonesian fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti indicate the government will crack down on fish aggregating devices, which have proliferated in the Southeast Asian nation’s waters.

DESTIN — The tourism department of Okaloosa County completed the final deployment of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) in the Gulf of Mexico on Jan. 20. That completes an eight-buoy network off the ...

As beautiful as it is, the open ocean is a barren place that is largely devoid of structure, and any piece of floating debris — big or small, natural or manmade — is, at times, capable of attracting a ...

Busan, Republic of Korea – WWF is concerned at the decision of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), responsible for managing nearly a quarter of global tuna catch, to adopt controversially high ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. – Makeshift contraptions for catching sea life off West Africa are landing on Florida beaches like hobo fishermen, drowning turtles and bashing coral heads in a current-driven journey ...

Fishermen hold empirical knowledge that tuna aggregate under floating objects, such as lengths of old rope, pieces of wood, or even large marine mammals. There is still no full explanation for this ...