Bycatch issues make FADs ‘senseless’

HAVING recently come across Ministry of Marine Resources secretary Ben Ponia’s letter to your paper of March 14 this year, I was surprised to read him describe banning fish aggregation devices (FADs) as “senseless” as he must know it is their wasteful bycatch issues that make using them senseless.

HAVING recently come across Ministry of Marine Resources secretary Ben Ponia’s letter to your paper of March 14 this year, I was surprised to read him describe banning fish aggregation devices (FADs) as “senseless” as he must know it is their wasteful bycatch issues that make using them senseless.