About the Authors

Enric Sala

esala@ngs.org

Affiliations National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., United States of America, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Blanes, Spain

Christopher Costello

Affiliations Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Montpeillerain d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Montpellier, France

Dawn Dougherty

Affiliation Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Geoffrey Heal

Affiliation Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kieran Kelleher

Affiliation The World Bank, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Jason H. Murray

Affiliation School of the Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Andrew A. Rosenberg

Affiliation Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rashid Sumaila

Affiliation Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES CC GH KK AAR RS. Performed the experiments: ES CC DD JHM. Analyzed the data: ES CC DD JHM. Wrote the paper: ES CC DD GH KK JHM AAR RS.