The Effects of Drifting Fish Aggregating Devices on Bycatch in the Tropical Tuna Purse Seine Fisheries in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Thousands of floating objects, known as drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), are released every year by commercial tropical tuna purse seine vessels in the three equatorial oceans to aggregate tuna and increase catch. The escalation in the number of dFADs deployed over the last three decades h...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2016
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1499449678 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1114&context=etd |