Predatory fish depletion and recovery potential on Caribbean reefs (9 of 11) (VIDEO)

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Caribbean reef sharks at a reef site within Gardens of the Queen marine reserve in Cuba. This reef site has one of the highest biomass of predatory reef fish in the Caribbean, including relatively large reef shark and groupers. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 1, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Valdivia at Center for Biological Diversity in Oakland, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Predatory fish depletion and recovery potential on Caribbean reefs."

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[Credit: Abel Valdivia]

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