Sainte Anne Marine National Park

To protect a biodiverse marine national park, composed of 6 islands off the coast of Mahe. The site is unique as it was the first established marine park in the Indian Ocean in 1973. The vast marine park is home to numerous marine species and contains expansive seagrass meadows full of corals.

Species of Concern: green sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, common bottlenose dolphin

Begrensninger

1. Any person who without reasonable cause or excuse brings into or uses, or causes or permits to be brought into or used in a specified area, any pleasure boat or any other craft or any surfboard or water-ski shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees. Provided that it shall be lawful to bring a pleasure boat into a specified area for the purpose of securing it to a mooring provided by the Commission.
2. Any person who without reasonable cause or excuse uses or causes or allows the use of an anchor in a specified area shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 2,000 rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
3. Any person who uses or causes or permits to be used in the National Park any surf-board or water-ski shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees.
4. Any person who without reasonable cause or excuse uses a pleasure boat or any other craft in the National Park recklessly, or at a speed or in a manner which is dangerous to the public or without due care and attention, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
5. Any person who removes, defaces, damages or obscures any buoy, marker, notice, structure, vessel or equipment belonging to or placed by the Commission shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 2,000 rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
6. Any person, who - (a) injures, disturbs or damages any sandbank or reef or area of the sea-floor; or (b) kills, captures, takes or wilfully injures by any means whatsoever any marine plant or animal whether vertebrate or invertebrate and whether dead or alive; or (c) removes any humus, soil, sand, mud, gravel, rock, coral or reef debris for any purpose whatsoever from the sea-bed, foreshore, shore or land within 20 metres inland from the high water mark, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 2,000 rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
7. Any person who introduces into or has in possession in the National Park any spear-gun. harpoon or other device not authorised, declared unlawful, or prohibited by or under the Fisheries Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of 1,000 rupees.

Tillatt

It shall be lawful for any resident on privately-owned land on the islands of Cerf, Ste. Anne or Moyenne to collect and take from the foreshore adjoining their land, the following shellfish: bemique, hache d'armes, palourde, bigomeau, oysters, tectec.