Drifting FADs used in tuna fisheries: an ecological trap?
By F. Marsac, A. Fonteneau, Frederic Menard. 2000
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Citations in the corpus
- Fish aggregation device (FAD) research: gaps in current knowledge and future directions for ecological studies (2004, background): “Marsac et al. (2000) first highlighted the possibility that the great increase in numbers of drifting FADs in the ocean and their unnatural distribution may act as an ‘ecological trap’ for juvenile tuna.”
- Behavior of yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye (T. obesus) tuna in a network of fish aggregating devices (FADs) (2007, background): “Under the conditions reported here (anchored FADs located around a remote island archipelago) there is no evidence of an ‘ecological trap’ as defined by Marsac et al. (2000).”
- A worldwide review of purse seine fisheries on FADs (2000, result): “This question is still pending (Marsac et al. , 2000), but several faets are consistent to support the hypothesis that the recent massive seeding of FADs in the equatorial areas could modify one or more biological characteristics of the concerned tropical tunas: movement pattern, growth and natural…”
- Review of fish associative behaviour: Toward a generalisation of the meeting point hypothesis (2000, background): “A good example is the westward extension of the purse-seine fishery in the Eastern Pacific and Eastern Atlantic Oceans in the recent years (Fonteneau, 1997; Marsac et al., 2000).”
- The Tuna 'Commodity Frontier': Business Strategies and Environment in the Industrial Tuna Fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean (2012, background): “…tuna populations by diverting fish from areas with rich foraging conditions (e.g. near natural logs) and attracting them to areas with FADs, but less favourable foraging conditions, leading to a deterioration in population health (Marsac et al. 2000; Hallier and Gaertner 2008; Fauvel et al. 2009).”
- The past, present and future use of drifting fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Indian Ocean (2014, background): “Given these possible explanations for the association of tunas with floating objects there is concern that the deployment of large numbers of FADs in the pelagic ocean could change the natural environment of tunas, a theory known as the ‘ecological trap hypothesis’ [25,26].”