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Reply to: A path forward for analysing the impacts of marine protected areas

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replying to: R. Hilborn & M. J. Kaiser Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04775-1 (2022)

We appreciate the recommendations from Hilborn and Kaiser to further our analysis1, and although we agree with some of the suggestions in their Comment2 as a basis for future work, they do oversimplify and mischaracterize several of our conclusions. First, Hilborn and Kaiser2 comment on our assumptions about effort redistribution once marine protected areas (MPAs) are created. They suggest that we were inconsistent in our treatment of effort redistribution and that the benefits to biodiversity and carbon would be nullified under a full-effort transfer scenario; however, we disagree with this suggestion.

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  1. Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, USA

    Enric Sala, Juan Mayorga, Alan M. Friedlander & Whitney Goodell

  2. Environmental Markets Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Juan Mayorga, Darcy Bradley, Reniel B. Cabral, Christopher Costello & Steven D. Gaines

  3. College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

    Reniel B. Cabral

  4. Department of Watershed Sciences and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA

    Trisha B. Atwood & Audra Hinson

  5. IFREMER, Unité Halieutique de Manche et mer du Nord, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

    Arnaud Auber

  6. Changing Ocean Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    William Cheung & Juliano Palacios-Abrantes

  7. Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Francesco Ferretti

  8. Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, HI, USA

    Alan M. Friedlander & Whitney Goodell

  9. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Cristina Garilao

  10. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Benjamin S. Halpern

  11. Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Laboratory, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany

    Kristin Kaschner

  12. Quantitative Aquatics, Los Baños, The Philippines

    Kathleen Kesner-Reyes

  13. MARBEC, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Fabien Leprieur & David Mouillot

  14. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Jane Lubchenco

  15. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA

    Jennifer McGowan

  16. Marine Conservation Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

    Lance E. Morgan

  17. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science CBCS, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Hugh P. Possingham

  18. Dynamic Planet, Washington, DC, USA

    Kristin D. Rechberger

  19. Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Boris Worm

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Sala, E., Mayorga, J., Bradley, D. et al. Reply to: A path forward for analysing the impacts of marine protected areas. Nature 607, E3–E4 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04776-0

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