Find a contraption washed ashore? It's a device to attract fish

Fish aggregating devices that wash up on the beach are a reminder that what happens far offshore eventually ends up at our ...
Nature

Use of ‘fish aggregating devices’ could be unsustainable

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 ...
Palm Beach Post

Letters: Building a better fish-aggregating device

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 ...
Panda

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission adopts controversial limits to use of fish aggregating devices

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Fine-scale 3-dimensional movement behaviour of silky sharks Carcharhinus falciformis associated with fish aggregating devices (FADs)

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 ...