This dataset provides the Normalized area of influence of the fishing aggregation devices (FADs) deployed by the french fishing vessels targeting tuna and tuna-like species in the Atlantic and Indian oceans from 2006 to 2015. The nsurface is normalized and stratified by time (regular intervals of 1 month) and area (statistical squares of 5° longitude and latitude).

These data were collected by the Observatory of Exploited Tropical Pelagic Ecosystems (Ob7) of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). The source fine-grained data (i.e. precise location and date) were first extracted from the database and then aggregated on a 1 month timeframe and 5° longitude and latitude resolution grid to produce this dataset. Additional details are provided in the « supplemental information » and in the « lineage » sections.