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. 2008 Mar 18;275(1641):1351–1358. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1757

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Historical reef fish biomass implied by monk seal population estimates. The biomass of reef fishes required to sustain the estimated population of historical monk seals (ranging from 233 000 to 338 000 seals in the entire Caribbean) is four to six times greater than the average Caribbean reef, which exceeds that found on the most pristine Caribbean coral reefs today (data from Newman et al. 2006) and is in the same range of the most pristine reefs worldwide (data from NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Coral Reef Ecosystem).