Table 3.

The top 10 priorities of the participants in different self-reported sectors.

Rank	Federal government (n = 78)	State or local government (n = 165)	NGO (n = 32)	Private business (n = 14)	Seafood industry (n = 15)	Commercial fishery (n = 36)
1	Ocean acidification	Monitoring cumulative effects	Ocean acidification	Bycatch effects	Local ecological knowledge	Local ecological knowledge
2	Monitoring cumulative effects	Ocean acidification	Monitoring cumulative effects	Monitoring cumulative effects	Risk assessment for governance	Ocean acidification
3	Bycatch effects	Restoration effectiveness	Ocean literacy messages	Restoration effectiveness	Aquaculture effects	Monitoring cumulative effects
4	Risk assessment for governance	Bycatch effects	Bycatch effects	Ocean acidification	Ocean acidification	Bycatch effects
5	Coral-reef management strategies	Risk assessment for governance	Restoration effectiveness	High-seas governance	Bycatch effects	Aquaculture effects
6	Restoration effectiveness	Ocean literacy messages	Upland hydrology effects on oceans	Local ecological knowledge	Monitoring cumulative effects	Restoration effectiveness
7	Ocean literacy messages	Sea-level rise and vulnerable coasts	Local ecological knowledge	Ocean literacy messages	Restoration effectiveness	Risk assessment for governance
8	Sea-level rise and vulnerable coasts	Uncertainty in modeling	Sea-level rise and vulnerable coasts	Risk assessment for governance	Ecosystem-service-valuation implications	High-seas governance
9	Upland hydrology effects on oceans	Coral-reef management strategies	Coral-reef management strategies	Management capacity of human communities	High-seas governance	Ocean literacy messages
10	Shifting ecological baselines	Upland hydrology effects on oceans	Risk assessment for governance	Information for sustainable food choices	Polar oil spills	Information for sustainable food choices