Answer: the most likely case would be that population reached the carrying capacity of the area.
Explanation:
Explanation:First off the population of the prey that is the "coastal fish" In this case will increase in population and acquire a greater area for their survival and will start to (die-off).when the predators in an area are reduced or get extinct this change triggers a reaction called as "tropic cascade" in the ecosystem in which the change in the predator population has affects on the food web.
For example :when the wolves were eliminatefls from the American west, there were changes in the elk population and the vegetation the elk ate.
Therefore both preys and predators balance each other.
