diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1598ea39..9713f7f2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -8,57 +8,6 @@ Depends:
   rmarkdown,
   tidyverse,
   data.table,
-  devtools,
-  ks,
-  nlme,
-  AICcmodavg,
-  rgdal,
-  maps,
-  mapdata,
-  png,
-  marmap,
-  rerddap,
-  vegan,
-  mgcv,
-  ggplot2,
-  rpart, 
-  Kendall,
-  zoo,
-  colorRamps,
-  heatwaveR,
-  Hmisc,
-  raster,
-  grid,
-  gridExtra,
-  ncdf4,
-  readxl,
-  reshape2,
-  RColorBrewer,
-  cowplot,
-  stats,
-  geosphere,
-  readr,
-  sp,
-  openxlsx,
-  lubridate, 
-  rgeos,
-  kableExtra,
-  here,
-  geosphere,
-  purrr,
-  remotes (> 2.0.2), 
-  rvest,
-  xml2,
-  ggrepel,
-  kernlab,
-  formatR,
-  sf, 
-  ggspatial,
-  plotly
-Remotes: 
-  slucey/RSurvey/Survdat,
-  NOAA-EDAB/ecodata,
-  NOAA-EDAB/assessmentdata,
-  thomasp85/patchwork,
-  andybeet/arfit
+  devtools
+