Environmental Protection Requires Accurate Application of Scientific Evidence

Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

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Department of Biology and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada

Instituto do Mar – Okeanos Research Centre, University of the Azores, 9901-842 Horta, Azores, Portugal

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Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

Department of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Den Burg, The Netherlands

Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0218, USA

Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada

P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia

The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK