Study of Cabral and Lim on fish aggregating devices (FADs) receive international attention

Post date: Feb 15, 2014 6:38:42 PM

The work of Reniel Cabral and Dr. May Lim of the Complex Systems team (CX-Team) of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory (IPL), in collaboration with scientists from the Marine Science Institute (MSI), has been featured in Nature News and other scientific news agencies. The work, published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science, highlights the effects of fish aggregating devices (FADs) and fish enhancing devices (FEDs) on fish stocks [Reniel B. Cabral, Porfirio M. Aliño and May T. Lim, Modelling the impacts of fish aggregating devices (FADs) and fish enhancing devices (FEDs) and their implications for managing small-scale fishery, ICES Journal of Marine Science (2014)].

[Nature News] Use of 'fish aggregating devices' could be unsustainable (Daniel Cressey)

DOI:10.1038/nature.2014.14593

[Open Channels - Forum for ocean planning and management] FADs for marine conservation? (E.M. De Santo)

http://openchannels.org/blog/emdesanto/fads-marine-conservation