Many consumers want to know where their food comes from and how it might align with their own ideals in terms of sustainability and environmental protection. When it comes to the harvest of food from ...

Drifting devices used by the global tuna fishing industry are entering marine protected areas worldwide, creating potential ...

An international study co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher has found that drifting devices used by the ...

Drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) are floating rafts with underwater netting used by fishing vessels to attract tuna. A recent study estimated that between 2007 and 2021, 1.41 million dFADs ...

The tuna in your sandwich was likely caught with the aid of drifting rafts called fish aggregating devices (FAD). New Canadian research finds that abandoned FADs are smashing into coral reefs and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tuna fisheries often rely on fish aggregating devices (FADs), floating human-made structures that fish congregate around, which makes it relatively ...

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 ...

Often we bring you projects at the end of their trajectory so that you can marvel at a job well done, but sometimes we point you instead to the start of the story. Such is the case with [Brett ...

It’s Wednesday, February 22, and Indian Ocean countries are taking a stand against overfishing. Small-scale fishers won a victory in recent weeks when countries in and around the Indian Ocean voted to ...