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 ...

Recreational fishers in the Top End have been looked after by the Northern Territory Department of Agriculture and Fisheries as four new Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) have been deployed around two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — The Okaloosa County tourism department says two Fish Aggregation Devices (FADs) have broken loose in the Gulf of Mexico and is reminding boaters to not tie up to the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...