Earlier this year I was talking to Jay Styron and we discussed ideas for FAD's. We were thinking of putting a few near a productive live bottom area ~25-30 miles offshore here.
We came up with a couple of ideas but I am open for any suggestions. The basis of the design was a sand screw with poly rope and a "norwegian" buoy that we could inflate at depth. The structure was originally going to come from survey tape woven into the rope to create a tree-top like structure. The buoy would come to within 20' of the surface and there would also be a structure attached to the rope near the bottom to attract grouper. Instead of survey tape I thought about weaving a natural raffia like material so that it didn't pose a threat to birds turtles etc.
Having no experience with this, I was hoping that some of you might have imporovements upon this design....the main concerns being #1--no environmental hazards, #2--no navigational hazards, #3--needs to attract fish.
The area is ~85-100' deep with a hardbottom ledge with relief of up to 15'. I have 0.25m resolution sidescan imagery for a 2.5 x 3.5km area so we have a good idea of where we need to put the FAD's....the only question now is WHAT do we put there.
Let the brainstorming begin-
Thanks,
Matt
We came up with a couple of ideas but I am open for any suggestions. The basis of the design was a sand screw with poly rope and a "norwegian" buoy that we could inflate at depth. The structure was originally going to come from survey tape woven into the rope to create a tree-top like structure. The buoy would come to within 20' of the surface and there would also be a structure attached to the rope near the bottom to attract grouper. Instead of survey tape I thought about weaving a natural raffia like material so that it didn't pose a threat to birds turtles etc.
Having no experience with this, I was hoping that some of you might have imporovements upon this design....the main concerns being #1--no environmental hazards, #2--no navigational hazards, #3--needs to attract fish.
The area is ~85-100' deep with a hardbottom ledge with relief of up to 15'. I have 0.25m resolution sidescan imagery for a 2.5 x 3.5km area so we have a good idea of where we need to put the FAD's....the only question now is WHAT do we put there.
Let the brainstorming begin-
Thanks,
Matt