About the Authors

Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Yoshitaka Ota

a.cisneros@oceans.ubc.ca (AMCM); y.ota@oceans.ubc.ca (YO)

Affiliation NEREUS Program, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Daniel Pauly

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Sea Around Us Project, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Lauren V. Weatherdon

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Yoshitaka Ota

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Yoshitaka Ota

a.cisneros@oceans.ubc.ca (AMCM); y.ota@oceans.ubc.ca (YO)

Affiliation NEREUS Program, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YO DP AMCM. Data curation: AMCM YO LW. Formal analysis: AMCM LW. Funding acquisition: YO. Investigation: AMCM LW YO DP. Methodology: AMCM YO. Project administration: YO AMCM. Resources: YO DP. Software: AMCM. Supervision: YO AMCM DP. Validation: AMCM YO DP LW. Visualization: AMCM YO DP. Writing – original draft: AMCM YO LW DP. Writing – review & editing: AMCM YO LW DP.