National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act: Regulations: Management of iSimangaliso National Park Marine Protected Area (No. R. 788 of 2019).

These Regulations of the Minister of Environmental Affairs, made under sections 48A and 86 of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003, provides rules for the administration, conservation and management of the iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area. The Marine Protected Area consists one offshore and one inshore area. The inshore area consists of eight Inshore Controlled Zones, five Inshore Controlled Catch and Release Zones, eight Inshore Restricted Zones and one Inshore Wilderness Zone. The offshore area consists of two Offshore Controlled Pelagic Linefish Zones, three Offshore Restricted Zones, and one Offshore Wilderness Zone. Scientific research within the Marine Protected Area requires a permit issued by the Minister. Use of vessels in the zones is restricted. Fishing gear in the Zone must be stowed as prescribed. The regulations set up a fishing regime for each zone. Whale sharks shall not be captures or disturbed. No person may fish for any shark or ray species (Elasmobranchii) within the Marine Protected Area, except from the shore within an Inshore Controlled Zone or Inshore Controlled Catch and Release Zone and must be returned unharmed to the water from where they were caught. The iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority established in terms of section 9 of the World Heritage Convention Act, is designated as the management authority for the iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area. Except for those activities listed in section 48A(1) of the Act; the management authority may in the Integrated Management Plan for the Marine Protected Area, in an internal rule or in a Protected Area Notice, identify activities, which may be restricted, controlled, limited or prohibited, and such areas must be indicated by demarcation buoys, demarcation markers or notice boards.