Recent resolutions of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) have been implemented to improve scientific knowledge on the effects of drifting fish aggregating devices (DFADs) through increased data collection and reporting. Here, we report information on DFADs collected from three distinct data sources to describe the use of DFADs and buoys by the...
Technological advancements can influence both the fishing power of a fleet and the fishing strategies itemploys. To investigate these potential linkages, we examined almost three decades of data (1981–2008)from French tropical tuna purse seiners operating in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Applying a sequence ofstatistical methods at different temporal...
Since the mid 1990s, drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADS), artificial objects specifically designed to aggregate fish, have become an important mean of catching tropical tunas in the Indian Ocean for the purse seine fleet. In recent years, the massive deployments of dFADs as well as the massive use of tracking GPS and echosounder buoys on dFAD...
