As California nears completion of its proposal for the Central Coast, the next phase of implementation of Marine Life Protection Act begins. 
Press Release from Ocean Consevancy
Map of protected area
Scientific Consensus Statement on Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas Based on work conducted by the NCEAS Working Group on Marine Reserves

Sergio R. Floeter, Diego P. Vázquez, and Alexandra S. Grutter

Journal of Animal Ecology 76, 1 (2007)

Abstract
Editor's Choice, Science 314, 5806 (2006)

Photo:  The Fiji Labroides dimidatus cleaning Acanthurus mata, one of relatively few species of Acanthurus that feeds exclusively on plankton.

Robert J. Orth, Tim J. B. Carruthers, William C. Dennison, Carlos M. Duarte, James W. Fourqurean, Kenneth L. Heck Jr., A. Randall Hughes, Gary A. Kendrick, W. Judson Kenworthy, Suzanne Olyarnik, Frederick T. Short, Michelle Waycott, and Susan L. Williams

BioScience 56, 12 (2006)

Seagrasses: Prairies of the Sea
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