- StumbleUpon. Best Marine Park? Booming Fish Leap and Swarm. Photograph by Octavio Aburto, ILCP The no-fishing park was established in 1995 to restore the area's heavily overfished waters. Between 1999 and 2009, Cabo Pulmo saw a 460 percent increase in its total amount of fish—or biomass, here gauged by weight and length estimates, researchers say. (Read about ocean threats in Natioanl Geographic's Ocean supersite .) The reason for the comeback was partly due to the already healthy state of the coral reefs , said marine ecologist Enric Sala , an explorer-in-residence with the National Geographic Society.
(The Society owns National Geographic News.) (Read Sala's commentary on the Cabo Pulmo "miracle. " ) But another factor was strong community support and effective enforcement, the study says. "Catching less means getting more out of the ocean—that's the bottom line," he said. (See pictures: "'Pristine' Reefs Part of Planned Marine Reserve [2008].
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