About the Authors

Zahirah Dhurmeea

dzahirah@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius, IRD—research unit MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation (MARBEC), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles

Iker Zudaire

Affiliations IRD—research unit MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation (MARBEC), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

Emmanuel Chassot

Affiliations IRD—research unit MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation (MARBEC), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles, Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles

Maria Cedras

Affiliation Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles

Natacha Nikolic

Affiliation Ifremer DOI La Réunion, Le Port, Reunion Island, France

Jérôme Bourjea

Affiliation Ifremer—research unit MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation (MARBEC), Sète, France

Wendy West

Affiliation Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), Cape Town, South Africa

Chandani Appadoo

Affiliation Department of Marine and Ocean Science, Fisheries and Mariculture, Faculty of Ocean Studies, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius

Nathalie Bodin

Affiliations IRD—research unit MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation (MARBEC), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles, Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Fishing Port, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZD NB. Data curation: NB EC ZD IZ. Formal analysis: ZD EC. Funding acquisition: NB. Investigation: ZD NB IZ MC WW NN. Methodology: ZD NB. Project administration: NB. Resources: NB MC CA JB NN WW ZD. Supervision: NB CA. Writing – original draft: ZD. Writing – review & editing: ZD NB IZ EC NN JB.