The Truth About FADs (Fish Aggregating Devices)

Fish Aggregating Devices (or FADs) are still widely used by tuna fishing fleets throughout the Pacific Ocean despite a (temporary) ban. The use of FADs results in the bycatch of many juvenile and unwanted species contributing to the depletion of fish stocks and threatening vulnerable marine species.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Greenpeace
• Pacific
• fisheries
• tuna
• fishing
• marine
• protection

[0PsycoDad0]

We need to understand that the "economic efficency enfrocer" is the interest. The need to pay interest requires an ever increasing productivity whereby it doesn´t matter if the efficency gain is simply a result of a more sophisticated loot.

A mathmatical tool is on the top of the economic chain propelling an exponetial growth funtion into infinity yet neglegting the limited size of the ecosystem we live in.

You fight symptoms. The money system is the core issue to be dealt with.

[zygopedelum]

This is a terrible awareness campaign that has missed its mark, its not the FADs that are bad, its the method of fishing, purse seining is what needs to be banned, not the FADs....even without the FADs, tons of tuna can and will be caught with purse seining...this is a prime example of environmentalists not understanding fully of fishing practices, even if they succeed in banning FADs, they still will fail because purse seining will continue.

[theuniqueRKWvlog]

I don't know how to feel about this.i see so much controversy on these videosin the comments,im 16 and became vegetarian when i was7,though still atefish so technically pesciarian(though i dont eat eggs or milk products).I dont think eating meat is a bad thing,but it makes me feel guilty to pay for the animals' bad treatment and murder by buyig the food, so i dont.But surely even fish lovers-like myself - can watch this video and still feel the disgust i do seeying them killed without reason?...

[mohammedislamrules]

fuck da fish

SHAVE UR CUNTS ASIAN WOMAN

[tunashack]

Whatever greenpeace!

[lolita150375]

you shouldn't kill fish and chuck them back there fags

[plasterdbastard]

We use FADs for sportfishing a lot, and the income from these guided programs and sportfishing surpasses that of commercial fishing.

FADs aren't the problem, it's the practices that we allow combined with sheer over-consumption that are the problem.

[AstairM5]

@piklweezl Glad to see there are still some rational and intelligent people out there. It's a sad world where Greenpeace can show some blood and get people to believe whatever they want. This smear campaign is going to threaten the entire tuna industry....

[lucusinfabula]

Fish Aggregating Devices do not imply capture, per se. Silly to overlook the added value of snorkelling and/or diving in/around such a manufact.

Refrain from kneejerk greenie pseudo intellectual objections.

Remember sustainability must also comply with financial aspects and that if you are living on Tonga or Kiribati or Maldives FADs can determine survival, well being and prosperity, sustainably.

[ernestgoesgolfin]

@piklweezl

But FADs are an unsustainable fishing practice, that's why they are part of the problem, and coupled with unsustainable consumption, it's a bad mix

[CorporateRule]

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