About the Authors

Catherine Alves

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, ECS Federal, Inc., in support of Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Social Science Branch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Narragansett, RI, United States of America

Abel Valdivia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rare, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Richard B. Aronson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, United States of America

Nadia Bood

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerica, Belize Field Programme Office, Belize City, Belize, Central America

Karl D. Castillo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Courtney Cox

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rare, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Clare Fieseler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Zachary Locklear

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Green Bay Wildlife Conservation Office, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, New Franken, Wisconsin, United States of America

Melanie McField

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, Smithsonian Institution, Fort Pierce, FL, United States of America

Laura Mudge

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Integral Consulting Inc., Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America

James Umbanhowar

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

John F. Bruno

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jbruno@unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. CA is currently employed at ECS Federal Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials