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Recovering the potential of coral reefs

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An analysis of fish declines in coral reefs shows that simple fishing limits and implementation of marine protected areas can be enough to support recovery of coral ecosystem resilience. See Letter p.341

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Figure 1: How overfished is this reef?

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  1. Nicholas K. Dulvy and Holly K. Kindsvater are in the Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.,

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Dulvy, N., Kindsvater, H. Recovering the potential of coral reefs. Nature 520, 304–305 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14384

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