About the Authors

Beverly McClenaghan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

Nicole Fahner

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

David Cote

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, St. John’s, NL, Canada

Julek Chawarski

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Fisheries Ecosystem Research, Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada

Avery McCarthy

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

Hoda Rajabi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

Greg Singer

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

Mehrdad Hajibabaei

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hajibabaei@gmail.com

Affiliations Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics & Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

B.M., N.F., H.R. A.M. and G.S. are employees of eDNAtec Inc. M.H. is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.