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MPAs inside the Gulf of California include the Bahía de Los Ángeles Biosphere Reserve (Viesca-Lobatón et al 2008, Mascareñas-Osorio et al 2011), a seasonal sanctuary for the whale shark; Loreto Marine Park (Campos-Dávila et al 2005,
Rife et al 2013); National Park Archipielago of Espíritu Santo (
Aburto-Oropeza and Balart 2001, Arreola-Robles and Elorduy-Garay 2002, Rodríguez-Romero et al 2005); Gulf of California Islands (Del Moral-Flores et al 2013); Cabo Pulmo National Park (
Alvarez-Filip et al 2006), where sound management has restored the fish biomass (
Aburto-Oropeza et al 2011); Isla Isabel National Park (Galván-Villa et al 2010); and Islas Marias Biosphere Reserve (
Erisman et al 2011). Others include the Archipielago de Revillagigedo Biosphere Reserve (Jordan and McGregor 1899, Castro-Aguirre and Balart 2002, Chávez-Comparán et al 2010), Islas Marietas National Park (Solís-Gil and Jiménez-Quiroz 2004, García-Hernández et al 2014), and Bahías de Huatulco National Park (
Ramírez-Gutiérrez et al 2007, López-Pérez et al 2010, Juárez-Hernández et al 2013) in the central and southern Mexican Pacific. However, many of the
MPAs from the Mexican central Pacific are lacking inventories of marine fishes.…”