Many FADs currently deployed by the purse-seine fishing industry in the WCPO are equipped with technology allowing for the tracking of those FADs via satellite and for measuring the biomass of tunas associated with the FAD. These measures are currently not available for scientific application, but if made available would potentially provide a fishery independent source of information on tuna biomass that could be integrated into population assessment models. They could also potentially provide information on prey biomass which could be integrated into ecosystem models. Further development of instrumented FADs could include equipping platforms with instruments that record the presence of and transfer information collected by electronically tagged tuna and measure key oceanographic and biogeochemical variables. This would also provide for realistic estimates of tunas movement to be integrated into modelling frameworks. Use of such infrastructure would further expand current observation systems throughout the WCPO and increase data available for improving ocean forecasting capabilities throughout the region.