Jamison Gove¹, Jonathan Whitney^1,2, Margaret Anne McManus³, Joey Lecky^1,4, Felipe Carvalho¹, Jennifer Lynch⁵, Jiwei Li⁶, Philipp Neubauer⁷, Katharine Smith⁸, Jana Phipps^1,2, Donald R Kobayashi¹, Karla Balagso^1,2, Emily A. Contreras^1,2, Mark E. Manuel^9,10, Mark Merrifield¹¹, Jeffrey J Polovina¹, Jeffrey A Maynard¹², Gregory P Asner¹³ and Gareth J Williams¹⁴, (1)NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Lynker Technologies, Leesburg, VA, United States, (5)National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States, (7)Dragonfly Science, Wellington, New Zealand, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (9)NOAA Marine Debris Program, United States, (10)Freestone Environmental Services, Richland, United States, (11)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (12)SymbioSeas and Marine Applied Research Center, Wilmington, NC, NC, United States, (13)ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, United States, (14)School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom