Abandoned tuna-fishing devices pollute the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Abandoned tuna-fishing devices pollute the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Monga Bay reported The tuna industry commonly uses fish aggregating devices (FADs) to efficiently collect large volumes of fish; when these devices are lost or abandoned, they can harm marine wildlife and habitats. In Ecuador, lost FADs can drift into the Galápagos Marine Reserve, a protected area with hundreds of endemic and threatened species, where they pollute the environment with plastic, harm reefs and entangle wildlife. Local agencies an…