FADs are structures, either free floating or anchored, deployed to certain areas in the waters to attract schools of fish.
This system works by allowing algae to grow underneath and will serve as artificial habitat for small fish that will, in turn, attract mature pelagic fish like tuna.
Fish and Wildlife staff members were busy yesterday preparing three more FADs at the Fishery Research Station in Lower Base.
They said two had been deployed in the waters around Rota and one three miles northeast of Saipan.
Four more FADs will be deployed in the waters around Saipan and Tinian, they added.
Fish and Wildlife said they are replacing some of the FADs that went missing over the past few years.
The deployment of FADs received a funding of $125,000 from U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
There are about 10 FAD sites in the waters surrounding CNMI.
FADs supplement the current harvest levels of local fishermen who need not sail too far, CNMI Fish and Wildlife said.
