About the Authors
- Ekaterina Vassilenko
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ocean Wise Conservation Association, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Mathew Watkins
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ocean Wise Conservation Association, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Stephen Chastain
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Ocean Wise Conservation Association, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Joel Mertens
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Sustainable Apparel Coalition, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Anna M. Posacka
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Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ocean Wise Conservation Association, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Shreyas Patankar
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Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ocean Wise Conservation Association, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Peter S. Ross
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: pross@eoas.ubc.ca
Current address: Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Affiliation Ocean Wise Conservation Association, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Competing Interests
Support for our study was generously provided by Mountain Equipment Co-operative (MEC), Patagonia, REI, Arc’teryx, and MetroVancouver and Environment and Climate Change Canada. Two of these are private sector firms (Patagonia and Arc’teryx), two are not-for-profit firms (MEC and REI), and two are government agencies (MV and ECCC). Staff from all organizations provided technical advice and materials to be tested, but did not review the manuscript or provide input into the interpretation of findings. There are no restrictions on sharing of data, all of which can be found in Supplementary information. We have no related consultancy, patents, products in development, marketed products declarations to make. This support did not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.