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Key Information
| 1,237,243 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 1,246,714 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
- Commercial marine life removal is prohibited
- Both commercial and recreational marine life removal are heavily restricted
- Recreational marine life removal is prohibited, and commercial marine life removal is restricted
Regulations: Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands
Boundary: Government of SGSSI (Unmodified)
2.0
June 2025
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Mērķis
To conserve marine biodiversity, habitats and critical ecosystem function; ensure that fisheries are managed sustainably, with minimal impact on associated and dependent ecosystems; manage other human activities including shipping and scientific research, to minimise environmental impacts on the marine environment; protect the benthic marine organisms from the destructive effects of bottom trawling; facilitate recovery of previously over-exploited marine species; increase the resilience of the marine environment to the effects of climate change; and prevent the introduction of non-native marine species.
Species of Concern: Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba); Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides); Mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari); Penguins (Spheniscidae); Seals (Pinnipedia); Whales (Cetacea); Albatrosses (Diomedeidae); Petrels (Procellariidae)
Regulations Summary
Ierobežojumi
The following activities are prohibited within this MPA
(a) bottom trawling; and
(b) fishing in the no-take zones;
(c) fishing vessels entering the no-take zones, except in exercise of the right of innocent
passage or under force majeure;
(d) bottom fishing in:
(i) the general benthic closed area;
(ii) the research benthic closed areas;
(e) pelagic fishing in the pelagic closed area; and
(f) fishing for Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) from 1 October – 30 April.
Atļauts
The restrictions do not apply to:
(a) anything carried out in accordance with a permit granted by the Commissioner; or
(b) anything done
- in the interests of the prevention or detection of crime;
- for securing public health; or
- for the purpose of saving human life, securing the safety of any vessel of significant value or of preventing damage to any vessel or cargo (in either case of significant value) from any danger which could not have been foreseen or avoided.