James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is a beach with diverse marine life such as algae, crabs, sponges, sea-stars, mollusks, and fish. James Fitzgerald, a former San Mateo County board of supervisor president, passed a bill designating the Moss Beach tide-pool area as a Reserve. It is a great resource for studying marine life, the coastal ecosystem, and natural history. One current issue is impacting the marine reserve is over-tourism with over 130,000 people annually damaging the tidepools and is threatening to destroy this sheltered refuge. Hopefully the Marine Reserve staff and volunteers can control the over eager tourists visiting the reserve in the future.