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Scripps News has reported on a 2009 study conducted in the Cabo Pulmo National Park in Mexico’s Gulf of California by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. It was carried out from 1999 to 2009 and that shows that the total number of fish in the reserve ecosystem increased over 460 percent within 10 years. The findings of the study are published in the Public Library of Science journal.

The survey also shows that fish biomass at the park has increased by 463 percent over the 1999 study, and that the biomass of top predators and carnivores increased by 11 and 4 times, respectively.