Fish stocks grow dramatically in Mexican reserve

Mexico

A new study of Cabo Pulmo National Park in the Gulf of California shows the number and size of fish have increased dramatically in the past 10 years, offering powerful evidence that a marine area can recover from overfishing when a community works to protect it. The research, led by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, found that the improvement was the greatest measured in any marine reserve worldwide. Published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE journal, the study determined that biomass concentrations at Cabo Pulmo were over five times greater per hectare than the average in non-protected areas of the Gulf of California. “This thing can recover in a short time,” says Exequiel... [Log in to read more]

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