About the Authors

Ussif Rashid Sumaila

r.sumaila@fisheries.ubc.ca

Affiliation Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

William Cheung

Affiliation Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Andrew Dyck

Affiliation Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kamal Gueye

Affiliation The United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland

Ling Huang

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Vicky Lam

Affiliation Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Daniel Pauly

Affiliation Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Thara Srinivasan

Affiliation Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Wilf Swartz

Affiliation Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reginald Watson

Affiliation Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dirk Zeller

Affiliation Sea Around Us Project, 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: URS DP. Performed the experiments: URS AD LH VL WS. Analyzed the data: URS AD ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC RW KG LH TS. Wrote the paper: URS AD DP DZ.