“…I examined 28 different reports and articles that over the last 8 years identified research questions or issues with potential salience to ocean sustainability. Those included: 13 general (i.e., non-marine) big question exercises (Sutherland et al, 2006(Sutherland et al, , 2009(Sutherland et al, , 2012b(Sutherland et al, , 2013bMorton et al, 2009;Brown et al, 2010;Pretty et al, 2010;Fleishman et al, 2011;Kark et al, 2011;Rudd et al, 2011;Boxall et al, 2012;Braunisch et al, 2012;Ingram et al, 2013) and five specific to coastal and marine issues (Fissel et al, 2012;Feary et al, 2013;Rees et al, 2013;Parsons et al, 2014;Vugteveen et al, 2014); six annual horizon scanning exercises (Sutherland et al, 2008(Sutherland et al, , 2011a(Sutherland et al, , 2012a(Sutherland et al, , 2013a(Sutherland et al, , 2014; and four oceanspecific reports that identified important research questions and that were based on expert opinions (Heip et al, 2011;Heip and McDonough, 2012;Snelgrove et al, 2012;Borja et al, 2013).…”