[News] California Opens Its Ocean Parks to Tribal Initiative, Approving the First Chumash-Nominated Protected Areas
Two small Chumash-nominated conservation areas near Carpinteria and Point Sal mark the first growth of California's marine protected network in over a decade, though commercial and charter fishermen lose grounds, the state's own wildlife department doubted the need and the enforceability, and the co-management the tribes want is still unwritten.
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