Kerry Howell¹, Lara Jane Atkinson², Alex Bastos³, Alvar Carranza⁴, Jaime Davies⁵, Ana Hilario⁶, David Moffat⁷, Tina Kutti⁸, Nils Piechaud⁹, Kerry Sink¹⁰, Sidi Mohamed¹¹, Tim Nattkemper¹², Jose Angel Alvarez Perez¹³, Rebecca Ross⁸ and Lizette Voges¹⁴, (1)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (2)South African Environmental Observation Network, Offshore marine node, Cape Town, South Africa, (3)UFES Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, (4)Centro Universitario Regional del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, (5)University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar, (6)University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, (7)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Environmental Intelligence Group, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (8)Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway, (9)Institute of Marine Research Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (10)South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Cape Town, South Africa, (11)Mauritanian Institute of Oceanographic and Fisheries Research, Nouakchott, Mauritania, (12)Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, (13)University of Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil, (14)South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, Swakopmund, Namibia