The life expectancy of subsurface FAD (fish aggregating device) has been successfullyincreased in this program. The efficacy of long-life FAD was very significant foraggregating the yellowfin and skipjack tunas. Therefore, many new fishing grounds hasbeen created for offshore fisheries by deploying the FADs. The fishermen are more andmore interested in using the FADs, recently. In this year, the work of deploying FADs inthe coastal water of southwestern Taiwan will be continued, and the suitable locations ofsetting FADs in the coastal water of Miaoli County will be estimated, we plan to deploythree sets of FADs in the coastal waters of Taiwan totally. Beside, for the purpose oftransferring technique, the low cost subsurface FADs will be improved to help thefishermen societies to design and deploy their FADs in the future.