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, ...

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 ...

They come from West Africa and experts are concerned because they’re drowning turtles and smashing coral reefs. But they keep showing up on Palm Beach County beaches. Makeshift contraptions for ...

Indonesia has welcomed measures to cut back on the use of fish-aggregating devices, which critics blame for Indian Ocean tuna being caught at unsustainable rates. A senior Indonesian fisheries ...

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is asking the public to keep an eye out for foreign and domestic fish aggregating devices, or “FADs,” which may be adrift in nearshore waters and ...