Regulations relating to Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area (No. 316 of 2012).

These Regulations, made in terms of section 61 read with section 51 of the Marine Resources Act, provides with respect to the protection of resources of the Namibian Islands Marine Reserve as declared under Government Notice No. 17 of 2009. The Regulations delineate the protected areas, give coordinates of the All-encompassing buffer zone of the Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area, and places restrictions on various activities in the protected area and the buffer zones. The Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area consists of an all-encompassing buffer zone, further sub-zoned into four degrees of increasing protection. The approved conditions enforceable in each zone are contained in the management zoning for the Namibian Islands’ Marine Protected Area. Activities that are restricted or prohibited concerning (commercial) fishing and collecting of aquatic organisms, mining, access, etc. Fishing for certain shark species is prohibited.