Duxbury Reef is the focus of a growing maelstrom between Bolinas fishing advocates and a Point Reyes Station conservation nonprofit that has petitioned the state to tighten restrictions at the reef, one of the largest exposed Monterey shale reefs in North America.
Anglers argue that new limits proposed by the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, or E.A.C., are both unsupported by data and unnecessary. The debate came to a head this month, when…