Ensenada Bay First Surfing Reserve in Mexico Sandra Dibble - The San Diego Union-Tribune
go to original July 2, 2014

A surfer near Todos Santos Island, about 10 miles off the coast of Ensenada. (Sean M. Haffey)

How to celebrate the designation of Mexico’s first surfing reserve? With speeches, cultural performances — and a paddle-out by surfers from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Surfers and environmentalists gathered in Ensenada last week to celebrate the designation of a stretch of Todos Santos Bay as a World Surfing Reserve.

“This is the birthplace of Mexican surfing,” said Zach Plopper, costal and marine director for Wildcoast, an environmental group with offices in Imperial Beach and Ensenada.

The designation “gives a central theme to conservation efforts and community capacity building,” Plopper said. “It allows surfers and the community to have a common focus point to operate around.”

World Surfing Reserve is a program of Save the Waves Coalition, a California-based non-profit group that focuses on preserving the world’s surf spots and their surrounding environments.

The Todos Santos reserve covers a 25-mile stretch of coastline north of the port of Ensenada. It reaches from Arroyo San Miguel to Todos Santos Island to the west and Salsipuedes to the north.

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