About the Authors

Jure Brčić

Contributed equally to this work with: Jure Brčić, Bent Herrmann, Antonello Sala

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

Affiliation Department of Marine Studies, University of Split, Split, Croatia

Bent Herrmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Jure Brčić, Bent Herrmann, Antonello Sala

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Fishing Gear Technology, North Sea Science Park, Hirtshals, Denmark, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Antonello Sala

Contributed equally to this work with: Jure Brčić, Bent Herrmann, Antonello Sala

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

antonello.sala@cnr.it

Affiliation Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies (IRBIM), Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. SINTEF provided support in the form of salaries for the author BH, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The specific roles of the authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.