About the Authors

Roldan C. Muñoz

roldan.munoz@noaa.gov

Affiliation National Marine Fisheries Service, Beaufort Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Brian J. Zgliczynski

Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joseph L. Laughlin

Affiliation Mariculture Hawaii LLC, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America

Bradford Z. Teer

Affiliation National Marine Fisheries Service, Beaufort Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

JLL is a science and aquaculture consultant at Mariculture Hawaii LLC. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: RCM BJZ. Conceived and designed the study: RCM BJZ. Collected the data: RCM BJZ JLL BZT. Reviewed and edited the manuscript: RCM BJZ JLL BZT.