Is it good or bad to fish with FADs? What are the real impacts of the use of drifting FADs on pelagic marine ecosystems?

Ecological Metrics of Biomass Removed by Three Methods of Purse-Seine Fishing for Tunas in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean

(2012) TIM GERRODETTE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries

(2012) S. M. Garcia et al.   SCIENCE

Bycatch of the European purse seine tuna fishery in the Atlantic Ocean for the 2003–2007 period

(2011) Monin Justin Amandè et al.   AQUATIC LIVING RESOURCES

The reproductive biology of the rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) caught in the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago

(2011) PB Pinheiro et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Fishing tuna around Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) vs free swimming schools: Skipper decision and other determining factors

(2011) Patrice Guillotreau et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Proxy Measures of Fitness Suggest Coastal Fish Farms Can Act as Population Sources and Not Ecological Traps for Wild Gadoid Fish

(2011) Tim Dempster et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities

(2011) Florian Altermatt et al.   PLoS One

Are drifting FADs essential for testing the ecological trap hypothesis?

(2010) Laurent Dagorn et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Do drifting and anchored Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) similarly influence tuna feeding habits? A case study from the western Indian Ocean

(2010) S. Jaquemet et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Vertical movements, behavior, and habitat of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, ascertained from archival tag data

(2010) Kurt M. Schaefer et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires a change to the selective fishing philosophy

(2010) S. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First field-based experiment supporting the meeting point hypothesis for schooling in pelagic fish

(2009) Marc Soria et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Recent European initiatives in marine protection policy: towards lasting protection for Europe's seas?

(2009) Markus Salomon   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Reproductive biology of wahoo,Acanthocybium solandri, from the Atlantic coast of Florida and the Bahamas

(2009) Kristin L. Maki Jenkins et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

(2009) M. R. Gregory   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Application of bioelectrical impedance analysis as a method for estimating composition and metabolic condition of southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) during conventional tagging

(2008) Jay Willis et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Drifting fish aggregation devices could act as an ecological trap for tropical tuna species

(2008) J Hallier et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities

(2008) P. A. Venail et al.   NATURE