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The Maverick’s big-wave surf contest, which had been gearing up for an extension through April, is now officially off for the year. It has been shut down by a loophole, but more realistically, it expired due to a lack of surf.

Although contest organizers got no resistance from the San Mateo Harbor District in their request for more time, they encountered a roadblock in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency that governs activity within the California stretch of coastline known as the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

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