About the Authors

Wilf Swartz

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

Enric Sala

Affiliations Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Blanes, Spain, National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Sean Tracey

Affiliation Marine Research Laboratories, Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Reg Watson

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

Daniel Pauly

d.pauly@fisheries.ubc.ca

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DP ES RW WS. Analyzed the data: RW WS ST. Wrote the paper: DP WS ES.