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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In efforts to find innovative solutions to the region’s escalating tuna fishing problems, WWF has produced a video, which showcases the novel idea of using Fish Aggregating Devices or FADs—floating ...
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 ...
In order to attract bigger fish to the Destin area, the Tourism Development Council is launching a project that has never been done in the continental United States. For the past seven years, the TDC ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tuna love to congregate around objects adrift at sea, so industrial fishing vessels release thousands of man-made plastic-heavy fish aggregating ...
The V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources has deployed three new fish-aggregating devices, according to a news release from DPNR Commissioner Jean-Pierre Oriol. The devices consist of a ...
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 ...