The use of non-entangling FADs to reduce ghost fishing

Citation
Moreno G, Murua J, Restrepo V (2018) The use of non-entangling FADs to reduce ghost fishing. In: 3rd Meeting of the FAD Management Options Intersessional Working Group. WCPFC FADMO-IWG3-IP-11, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands, p 7
Abstract

The impacts associated to FAD structure are ghost fishing, damages in coral reefs and coastal areas and interference with other economic activities and marine pollution. ISSF scientists working on FAD research as well as fishing industry, well aware of the impacts that FAD structure can cause in by-catch species, reefs and coastal ecosystems, have been working since 2010 to develop FAD structures that minimize these impacts. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the research conducted to reduce ghost fishing by FADs and document the important advances towards the use of new non-entangling FAD designs to mitigate those impacts.