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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sailors aren’t the only ones to get lost at sea. A study finds that more than 40% of floating devices deployed to lure tuna in the Indian and Atlantic oceans drift away from fishing sites, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Often we bring you projects at the end of their trajectory so that you can marvel at a job well done, but sometimes we point you instead to the start of the story. Such is the case with [Brett ...

UK supermarkets have been urged to stop selling tuna caught in harmful fishing devices after a landmark ruling. In February, Blue Marine Foundation and Bloom Association challenged the EU’s decision ...

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 ...