Reply to Slooten et al.: Viewing fisheries management challenges in a global context

Slooten et al. (1) claim the survey respondents from New Zealand, one of 28 countries considered in our paper in PNAS (2), were strongly biased toward the fishing industry. The six survey responses comprised a range of background experience: three government/science respondents (added here as coauthors), including the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research’s Chief Scientist–Fisheries, the government’s Principal Advisor–Fisheries Science, and an independent consultant working with government and the fishing industry; one (anonymous) university respondent; one (anonymous) environmental-nongovernmental organization (NGO) respondent; and a pair of respondents who consult for industry and collectively have experience in the seafood sector and community/environmental NGOs. We aimed for such diversity in respondent experience in all countries, and, on …