FAD Fishing Management
Purse Seine Guidebook
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Introduction
- Avoid Bycatch
- Minimize the Risk of Capture
- Reduce Bycatch Mortality
- Offset Unavoidable Bycatch Mortality
- 1. Sharks and Rays
- Sharks and Rays Commonly Encountered
- Reducing Shark and Ray Bycatch
- Target Large Schools
- Attract Sharks Out of the Net
- Fish Sharks in the Net to Release Them
- Modify Fishing Gear
- On Deck Safe Handling and Releasing Techniques
- Manual Handling Do’s
- Handling Medium Sharks
- Handling Stingrays
- Handling and Release with Bycatch Release Devices
- Light Equipment
- Shark Release Ramps with Hopper
- Mobulid Sorting Grids (with Vessel’s Crane)
- Releasing Whale Sharks
- Shark Handling and Release Do’s
- Shark Handling and Release Don’ts
- End Wasteful Shark Finning
- 2. Sea Turtles
- Most Common Bycaught Sea Turtle Species
- 3. Selective Tuna Fishing: Reducing Catch of Small Bigeye & Yellowfin Tuna
- Species Identification
- Yellowfin (30-45 cm)
- Bigeye (30-45cm)
- Yellowfin (46-110cm)
- Bigeye (46-110 cm)
- Yellowfin (>110 cm)
- Bigeye (>110 cm)
- Fisher Cooperation and Input
- Chapter 4
- Introduction
- International Organizations and Instruments
- Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
- Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
- Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Further Notes on Data Reporting and Compliance
- Conclusion
- Credits and Citations
ISSF has compiled lists of the elements it considers most important for effective FAD management:
- Complying with flag state and RFMO reporting requirements by set type
- Voluntarily reporting additional FAD buoy data for use by RFMO science bodies
- Supporting science-based FAD limits
- Using non-entangling FADs to reduce ghost fishing
- Mitigating other environmental impacts due to FAD loss including through the use of biodegradable FADs and FAD recovery policies
- Implementing further mitigation efforts for silky sharks
The following sections expand upon the above six elements of management that ISSF considers to be of utmost importance for proper dFAD management. The different elements could be merged in broader categories, such as:
- FAD data collection and monitoring, including a-c
- FAD structure impacts, including d and e
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We provide practical examples that fleets could implement on those broader categories to improve FAD fishery sustainable practices.
ISSF adopted a Conservation Measure 3.7 on Transactions with Vessels or Companies with Vessel-based FAD Management Policies that requires ISSF participating companies to conduct transactions only with those purse-seine vessels whose owners develop and make public FAD Management Policies that include the activities purse-seine and supply vessels are undertaking on those six elements above.