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Competing Interests

There are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Myriam Lacharité conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Craig J Brown conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Abstract submission only.

Funding

This work was supported through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Academic Research Contribution Program entitled 'Developing Methods for Benthic Habitat Mapping of MPAs in Atlantic Canada' (project agreement #F5299-140076), and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canadian Healthy Oceans Network and its partners: Department of Fisheries and Oceans and INREST (representing the Port of Sept-Îles and City of Sept-Îles; NETGP 468437-14, Project 1.2.5). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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