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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (Halifax) __ Most consumers enjoying a tuna salad or sandwich are not aware that the fish they're eating is often caught with the help of a device that can cause unintended harm ...

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 ...