The reserve remains under continual pressure from poaching. However the willingness of residents whose homes overlook the reserve to make observations and document boats and provide registration information to the agenices responsible for enforcement allowed them to followup with arrests and substantial fines. This willingness on the part of these agencies to act and follow up on such information is a large part of this success story. In addition dive operators out of Cabo did not see the closure as a penalty for the areas closure to spearfishing but rather a plus in it's burgeoing ecotourism stance. As a result fishing outside the immediate areas of the reserve has improved, not only from our own experiences but also according to the skippers who fish the open areas from their home port of Las Barriles.