Does Fishing On Drifting Fish Aggregation Devices Endanger The Survival Of Tropical Tuna?

Biologists studying tropical tuna fisheries aimed to establish if the use of drifting fish aggregation devices, a technique employed increasingly for industrial-scale tuna fishery, could act as just such an ecological trap for these species. Examination revealed that the tuna species caught from under the floating objects had less plumpness and were therefore less healthy than those taken from free schools.

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