About the Authors

Simon J. Allen

S.Allen@murdoch.edu.au

Affiliation Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Julian A. Tyne

Affiliation Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Halina T. Kobryn

Affiliation Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Lars Bejder

Affiliation Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Kenneth H. Pollock

Affiliations Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Neil R. Loneragan

Affiliation Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, Centre for Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The Australian Government's Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, the Department of Fisheries Western Australia and the Nickol Bay Professional Fishers Association provided funding for this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJA LB NRL. Analyzed the data: SJA JAT HTK KHP NRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAT HTK. Wrote the paper: SJA JAT HTK LB KHP NRL.