For generations, Bolinas residents have fished the waters off Duxbury Reef, casting lines from its shale ledges, diving for red abalone in in its silty shallows and poke-poling for monkeyface eel in its tidepools.
Now, a proposal to ban all fishing around the reef has struck a nerve in the coastal village, where commercial and recreational fishing are woven into the local way of life.
“Bolinas is a fishing town,” said Rudi Ferris,…