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, ...

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 ...

Good morning,” Walter Borbor, a social media-famous fisher, says to his followers in a 2022 Instagram video. “What we have here is a plantado.” He points to a large black floating device with a ...

A recent study reveals that drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), widely used in tuna fishing, have spread to more than a third of the world’s oceans. These devices harm ocean life and coastal ...

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 ...

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