National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No. 57 of 2003)RegulationsAliwal Shoal Marine Protected Area Regulations7. Control of activities in the Restricted Zone |
| (1) | No person may fish, or attempt to fish, in any Restricted Zone, including spearfishing and fishing for invertebrates or collecting or harvesting of intertidal organisms including any bait species. |
| (2) | No fishing gear including lines, hooks, lures, nets, trawl doors, warps, spearguns, buoys, traps or any other gear or equipment used for fishing, may be deployed overboard from any vessel within a Restricted Zone of the Marine Protected Area. |
| (3) | Fishing gear onboard a vessel or in possession of any person that enters or is present in the Restricted Zone of the Marine Protected Area must be stowed in the following manner— |
| (a) | In the case of line fishing— |
| (i) | from a vessel, all hooks, lures, sinkers and weights are disconnected from the line, all the line is reeled onto the reel or rolled up, and that rolled up line, hooks, lures, bait and weights on the vessel are packed away in a cabin, locker, hatch, wheel house or console of the vessel, or where that is not possible, place such gear on the deck of the vessel; |
| (ii) | from the shore, all hooks, lures, and weights are disconnected from the line, all the line is reeled onto the reel or rolled up, and that rolled up line, hooks, lures, bait, weights and any spear gun or spearfishing equipment are placed away in a bag or container; |
| (b) | in the case of purse-seine fishing, no gear may be in the water; |
| (c) | in the case of trawl fishing, all nets, trawl boards and weights shall be stowed below deck or securely lashed to some part of the superstructure of the fishing vessel; |
| (e) | in the case of fishing with traps, other than rock lobster traps, all traps shall be on board and tied down; |
| (f) | in the case of any other nets including gillnets, cast nets and throw nets, nets shall be on board and packed away in a console, locker or any other container; |
| (g) | in the case of pole fishing, all poles will be secured above deck; |
| (h) | in the case of longline fishing, no branchline may be attached to the mainline and the entire mainline shall remain on the spool; and |
| (i) | in respect of all types of fishing where bait is used, such bait must remain packed away or be placed into a bait well, where available. |
| (4) | No person may land any fish in a Restricted Zone of the Marine Protected Area. |