Changes may be coming for California’s Marine Protected Areas, and fishers, scientists and coastal communities are all grappling, nervously, with what it means.By Claire BarberBOLINAS, Calif.—Kent Khtikian pointed at a seemingly barren inch of reef. His hair, curly, long and grey blew wildly in the wind underneath a tan cowboy hat. He hunched over and kneeled close to a tiny tide pool, observing how a small, black periwinkle snail wiggled its way into a protected corner of rock.

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