From what I've been told by my contact the estuaries used to be breeding areas for a number of fish. They would like to try and have this happen again. Of course they have to get all the people who live at Goleta Beach in campers in the parking lot that is "heavily monitored" to stop pissing in them :) I guess there is an intertidal reef just to the east of Campus Point that would not be in the reserve if the boundary was moved to Campus Point. It is not in the cove itself but one of the objectives of the MLPA is to make the boundaries clear landmarks so straight perpendicular lines from the coast is the only option. A clear boundary is one of the reasons they original chose the pier.

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You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today - please practice catch and release.