RFMO Best Practices Snapshots - International Seafood Sustainability Foundation

Our “snapshots” identify best practices that Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) should follow to manage tuna fisheries sustainably.

In detailed tables, the snapshots compare tuna RFMO progress in implementing the practices.

For a high-level comparison across the five RFMOs, see our Tuna RFMO Best Practice Performance “scorecard” below. We also publish companion “best-practices reports” on these topics and “RFMO progress” infographics.

Acoustic Discrimination Technology to Support Selective Fishing

Date Added:	November 24, 2020
Downloaded:	466 times
Tags:	Acoustic Discrimination, Bycatch Mitigation, Ecosystem, FADs, Purse Seine, Tuna
Language:	English
Featured:	False
Report Type:	Final

Description

Created in November 2020, this infographic explains our research on how acoustic technology like echosounders could be used by purse-seine vessels to fish more selectively at fish aggregating devices (FADs).

Echosounders can be used to identify the acoustic signatures of different tuna species, allowing FAD fishers before they make a set to better target the tuna species whose stocks are at healthy levels — reducing overfishing and bycatch of non-target tuna and other marine species.