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Woman dies from possible overdose Police believe a 46-year-old woman found Sunday evening in a van parked on Nebraska Avenue died from a drug overdose, possibly heroin. Police said the woman, whose identity was not released as of Monday afternoon, was found by a male friend around 9:40 p.m. Sunday with some type of opiate. The death is still under investigation. Police said the woman was living in the van, which was parked in the 3200 block of Nebraska Avenue, an area surrounded by old warehouses. — DAILY PRESS
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populations, not sandy areas like the piers and beaches, Luce added.
Once the maps are completed, the groups will hand them over to the Blue Ribbon Task Force — committee of seven pre-selected public leaders — for consideration at the end of October. In December, the task force will present a final proposal adapted from these maps to the State Fish and Game Commission. This plan will determine to what degree certain areas will be protected. Marine Protected Areas or MPAs, can vary in terms of types of protection. For the South Coast region, a whole range of levels are being considered. These include reserves, which mean no fish or types of marine life can be removed, to conservation areas, which restrict certain species and time frames. Classifying an area as a park would call for the most minimal restrictions. “It is literally all about whether or not you can fish or commercially take fish or other marine resources out of a given area,” Mark Gold, president of Heal the Bay and a vice chair of the commission, said. Gold went on to add that it is highly unlikely that an MPA would ever restrict fishing off of the Santa Monica Pier. MPAs are concerned primarily with rocky reef areas that support kelp forests and fish
IT IS LITERALLY ALL ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN FISH OR COMMERCIALLY TAKE FISH OR OTHER MARINE RESOURCES OUT OF A GIVEN AREA.” Mark Gold president of Heal the Bay and a vice chair of the SMBRC
“We’ve protected some incredible places on land through the national and state parks system … but we really haven’t done the same thing for our precious coastal places,” Gold said. “That’s what MLPA is all about.” news@smdp.com
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