Capt. Edgar Acra, in yellow, with a local fisherman and a marlin in a panga off Punta Cana

What Are FADs, and Why Punta Cana’s Billfish Live Around Them

Twenty-five miles north of Cap Cana Marina, in water between 2,500 and 4,000 feet deep, there are roughly eighty floating buoys. Each one is a rope, an anchor and a palm frond. Each one holds fish. They are called FADs — fish aggregating devices — and they are the reason a blue marlin trip out […]

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