Use of Midwater Fish Aggregating Devices to Attract Marine Fish at Two North Carolina Fishing Piers

摘要

In recent years, due in part to rising energy costs, there has been increased effort toward the development of midwater fish aggregating devices (FADs). The purpose has been to aggregate fish in order to reduce the search time for commercial and recreational fishermen. In the fall of 1983, a small grant was obtained from the UNC Sea Grant College Program to investigate the potential of FADs to aggregate fish in the nearshore ocean environment and to determine if catch per unit of effort could be improved on fishing piers.