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It occurs to me that the people who are protesting the creation of coastal or ocean reserves are the very ones who have made the need for such reserves necessary. The resource extraction industries i.e. the fisherman in this case have shown an inability to police themselves. In my 62 years as a lifelong Oregonion I have watched time and again the fishing fleets target a specific species or profile (ex. bottom fish) and fish them to nonprofitability.
Marine reserves have shown themselves to be species generators enabling targeted stocks to hold on if not recover.
Opposition to marine reserves, I think, is simply selfish, shortsided and motivated by greed.

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