About the Authors

Nigel Brothers

Affiliation Marine Ecology and Technology Consultant, Wonga Beach, Queensland, Australia

Alan R. Duckworth

Affiliation Blue Ocean Institute, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Carl Safina

Affiliation Blue Ocean Institute, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Eric L. Gilman

EricLGilman@gmail.com

Affiliations Blue Ocean Institute, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America, Tetra Tech EM Inc., and College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB. Performed the experiments: NB. Wrote the paper: NB AD CS ELG.