Implementing pelagic MPAs relies to some degree on the identification and inclusion of representative
pelagic communities (Game et al., 2009). The spatial management of the open ocean must necessarily
consider scales much larger than those explored here, and requires sampling across seabed
depths where moorings are no longer practical. We explored this by deploying a few drifting rigs in
parallel with the sampling regime presented in this study but the results were not further analysed,
due to low replication. We envisage further studies that would explore differences in species accumulation
rates across deployment duration and sampling number between drifting and moored rigs.