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 ...
Recreational fishers in the Top End have been looked after by the Northern Territory Department of Agriculture and Fisheries ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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