A state commission has rejected a bid to expand fishing restrictions at Duxbury Reef, closing a chapter that both galvanized and strained West Marin environmentalists and fishing advocates for over a year.
Last Friday, the California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to deny a petition from the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin to expand the Duxbury Reef Marine Conservation Area northward and southward and prohibit fishing and all other take from the…