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To the Editor — Cisneros-Montemayor et al.1 criticize our argument2 that Indonesia’s recent efforts at combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing can recover fish stocks without temporary reductions in domestic catches, and that this strategy can be scaled up. Here, we respond to their specific criticisms.

While it is true that our projection of benefits considers only the illegal aspect of IUU fishing in Indonesia, we argue there may be similar benefits to helping legal fishers gain the benefits of stock recoveries from policies that reduce or eliminate other components of IUU. The fact that fixing one component of IUU alone can reduce fishing mortality rates more than enough to drive stock recovery is a critical finding. The scope for benefits to legal fishers would only be larger from resolutions that also reduce other IUU challenges.

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We acknowledge financial support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Waitt Foundation.

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  1. Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Reniel B. Cabral, Steven D. Gaines, Juan Mayorga, Michaela Clemence & Christopher Costello

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

    Juan Mayorga

  3. Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    John Lynham

  4. The Agency for Research and Human Resource of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Sonny Koeshendrajana, Umi Muawanah, Duto Nugroho &  Mira

  5. Fisheries and Marine Social Economic Department, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia

    Zuzy Anna

  6. Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, University of Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia

    Abdul Ghofar

  7. Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia

    Nimmi Zulbainarni

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Cabral, R.B., Gaines, S.D., Mayorga, J. et al. Reply to ‘Achieving sustainable and equitable fisheries requires nuanced policies not silver bullets’. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 1335 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0634-z

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