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Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998)

Regulations

Regulations in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act, 1998

Chapter 4 : Use of Gear

Part 4 : Other Nets: Beach-Seine Net, Staked Net, Set-Net, Driftnet and Gillnet

20. Closed areas

 

(1) No person shall—
(a) use a driftnet within any trek netting area within a distance of two nautical miles seaward of the high-water mark;
(b) anchor any vessel or place any obstruction in any trek netting area in a manner which interferes with the use of a beach-seine net at any time when treknet fishing is actually being conducted; or
(c) use a set or staked-net, except on the authority of a permit.

 

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1)(a) "trek netting area" shall include—
(a) the area between the fish processing establishment of Paternoster Visserye Beperk and the furthest point of Paternoster Bay, known as "Groot Paternoster Punt";
(b) Britannia Bay and Shell Bay, in the district of Malmesbury, between a line (000 degrees true bearing) drawn from Cape St Martin, as western limit, and a similar line drawn from the lighthouse at Stompneus Point, as eastern limit; and
(c) the area known as Hout Bay Beach, in Hout Bay in the district of Wynberg.

 

(3) No person shall use any drift, staked, or set-net for fishing within a distance of—
(a) 500 metres seaward of the high-water mark in the area bounded by a line (000 degrees true bearing) drawn from the beacon marked D.R. situated on the remaining extent of Wilde Varkens Valley A, due south of "Doctor's Reef", and a line (true bearing 270 degrees) drawn from the point of Cape Deseada at Elands Bay;
(b) three nautical miles seaward of the high water mark in the area bounded by a line (true bearing 270 degrees) drawn from the Cape Point lighthouse, and a similar line (true bearing 270 degrees) drawn from the beacon S.H.1 situated on the point known as "South Head", Saldanha Bay; and
(c) six nautical miles seaward of the high-water mark in the area bounded by a straight line (180 degrees true bearing) drawn from the lighthouse at Cape Hangklip, and a similar line drawn from the lighthouse at Cape St Blaize;
(d) 500 metres seaward of the high-water mark in the area bounded in the west by a straight line drawn from beacons which are respectively marked S.H.B.W.1 and S.H.B.2 and situated on Stompneus Point, and in the east by a similar line drawn from a beacon marked S.H.B.E. and a beacon marked D.R. and which are both situated on the remaining extent of Wilde Varkens Valley A, due south of "Doctor's Reef"; and
(e) three nautical miles seaward of the high-water mark in the area bounded by a straight line drawn from the point of Cape Deseada at Elands Bay, and a line (234 degrees true bearing) drawn from the northern bank of the Orange River, as indicated on Chart SAN FZ1.

 

(4) No person shall use any drift, set or staked-net for fishing within the area around Dassen Island bound by the latitudes 33°24.420'S and 33°26.289'S and longitudes 18°04.161'E and 18°06.317'E.

[Regulation 20(4) inserted by regulation 2 of  Notice No. R. 375 dated 4 May 2001]

 

(5) No person shall use any drift, set or staked-net for fishing within the area around Robben Island bounded by the latitudes 33°47.1 07'S and 33°49.423'S and longitudes 18°21.289'E and 18°23.190'E.

[Regulation  20(5) inserted by regulation 2 of  Notice No. R. 375 dated 4 May 2001]