Environmental Protection Requires Accurate Application of Scientific Evidence

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA. Electronic address: craigsmi@hawaii.edu.
• ² Department of Biology and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada.
• ³ Instituto do Mar - Okeanos Research Centre, University of the Azores, 9901-842 Horta, Azores, Portugal.
• ⁴ Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Den Burg, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0218, USA.
• ⁷ Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
• ⁸ Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
• ⁹ P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia.
• ¹⁰ The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.