Judge Rejects Challenge to Calif. Marine Protected Areas
Ed Joyce
KPBS
10/18/2011
The state approved three marine protected areas for Southern California last December, including an area off San Diego's coast.
The decision came after hundreds of meetings during the past 10 years as part of the Marine Life Protection Act.
Warner Chabot is CEO of the California League of Conservation Voters. He says San Diego Superior Court Judge Ronald Prager dismissed a lawsuit brought by a handful of sport fishing groups.
"I think the lawsuit was basically disgruntled fisherman who participated fully in the process and had their voice heard," said Chabot. "But the end result did not come out their way so they tried to blow it up with a lawsuit."
