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Fig. 1: Spatial distributions and overlap of sharks and longline fishing vessels.
Fig. 2: Effect of scale on the position and extent of FEI hotspots and areas free from AIS longline fishing effort.

Data availability

Data used in linear-regression modelling are available on GitHub (https://github.com/GlobalSharkMovement/GlobalSpatialRisk/tree/master/derived_data). Data used to prepare the maps (shark relative spatial density, longline-fishing effort and shark–longline-fishing overlap and FEI) are available on GitHub (https://github.com/GlobalSharkMovement/GlobalSpatialRisk).

Code availability

Code used to prepare the maps (shark relative spatial density, longline-fishing effort and shark–longline-fishing overlap and FEI) is available on GitHub (https://github.com/GlobalSharkMovement/GlobalSpatialRisk).

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Acknowledgements

Funding support was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (NE/R00997/X/1), European Research Council (ERC-AdG-2019 883583 OCEAN DEOXYFISH) (D.W.S.), Australian Research Council (ARC DP210103091) (A.M.M.S. and D.W.S.), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia CEECIND/02857/2018 (N.Q.), PTDC/BIA-COM/28855/2017 (M.V.) and a 2020 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation (A.M.M.S.). This research is part of the Global Shark Movement Project (https://www.globalsharkmovement.org/).

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N.Q. and D.W.S. planned the data analysis. N.Q. led the data analysis with contributions from M.V., A.M.M.S. and D.W.S. N.E.H. contributed analysis tools. A.M.M.S. undertook linear-regression modelling. D.W.S. led the manuscript writing with contributions from N.Q., N.E.H., A.M.M.S and all authors. Six of the original authors were not included in the Reply authorship; two authors retired from science and the remaining four, although supportive of our Reply, declined to join the authorship due to potential conflicts of interest with the authors of the Comment and/or their institutions.

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Extended Data Table 1 Global and regional drivers of FEI hotspots
Extended Data Table 2 Examples of global and regional drivers of FEI hotspots for individual shark species
Extended Data Table 3 Spatial refuge of pelagic sharks in ABNJs
Extended Data Table 4 Comparison of spatial refuge estimated with AIS data 2012–2016 and 2012–2018

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Queiroz, N., Humphries, N.E., Couto, A. et al. Reply to: Shark mortality cannot be assessed by fishery overlap alone. Nature 595, E8–E16 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03397-3

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