I've been very active in this whole process for a few months. There have been many, many disucssions on allcoast regarding this issue as well (check out the one on the main board right now if you wanna see me doing battle with an enviro...). I made a couple posts on this board when the process was just getting underway, but decided to focus my main attention on allcoast, since there's more people there, and it might get fairly repetitive on this board... Something WILL happen. Probably something very close to the map that was in the paper. It is pretty much too late to change anything as far as how much will be reserved. It will be 25%. The only thing that may be changed at this point is the borders of the reserves, to fluctuate them 1/2 mile or 1 mile to accomodate minimal impact on the commercial guys so that they can get a couple more lobster traps in there, or whatever. It's been a very frustrating process, but at least I can say I did my part...
-Brian