Fish magnet boom creates headaches in Indonesia’s war on overfishing

Mongabay
Feb 9, 2017, 12:04 am163 pts
Made by human hands, thousands of floating structures that attract fish speckle Indonesian waters throughout the archipelago country. Some drift. Some stand anchored to the ocean bottom. These fish aggregating devices — or FADs, in the parlance of the fisheries industry — mimic natural objects such as logs…

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