What does well-managed FAD use look like within a tropical purse seine fishery?

Also posted as IOTC-2022-WGFAD03-21_Rev1.

The topic of "FAD management" in tropical tuna purse seine fisheries has been the subject of considerable attention in recent years. However, with very few exceptions, there are no purse seine fleets that fish all year round on FADs only or on free schools of tuna only. Furthermore, the species of tuna targeted by purse seine fisheries (primarily skipjack, yellowfin and bigeye) are also targeted by other fisheries such as longline, pole-and-line, gillnet and troll. For these reasons, the impacts of FADs and FAD management cannot be considered entirely independently of harvest strategies, fishing capacity, ecosystem structure, or management of all other fishing gears in tropical tuna fisheries.
In this paper, we consider the issue of managing FAD use within tropical tuna purse seine fisheries. These considerations are separated into three general categories: (1) Managing impacts on target species; (2) managing impacts on non-target species, coastal habitats, and the pelagic marine ecosystem; and, (3) the management framework, including monitoring, compliance and surveillance (MCS).