About the Authors

Monal M. Lal

monal.lal@my.jcu.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Paul C. Southgate

Affiliations Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research, Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia

Dean R. Jerry

Affiliations Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Cyprien Bosserelle

Affiliation Geoscience Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Nabua, Suva, Fiji Islands

Kyall R. Zenger

Affiliations Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MML PCS KRZ. Data curation: MML CB KRZ. Formal analysis: MML CB KRZ. Funding acquisition: PCS. Investigation: MML CB. Methodology: MML CB KRZ. Project administration: MML PCS KRZ. Resources: MML PCS DRJ CB KRZ. Software: MML CB. Supervision: PCS DRJ KRZ. Validation: MML CB KRZ. Visualization: MML CB. Writing – original draft: MML. Writing – review & editing: MML PCS DRJ CB KRZ.