Location
Key Information
| 473,640 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 473,640 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Boundary: ProtectedSeas (Boundary Digitized Using Best Available Data)
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January 2023
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Purpose
To protect Palau's greatest asset, its waters, and to further Palau's constitutional requirement to take positive action to attain and implement the policy of conservation of a beautiful, healthful and resourceful natural environment. Foreign fishing vessels are depleting Palau's fish stocks and polluting Palau's waters with discharge. Designating 80% of Palau's EEZ as protected will allow fish stocks and the marine environment to recover.
Species of Concern: tuna, hawksbill sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, sei whale, blue whale, green sea turtle, whale shark, shortfin mako shark
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
1. This is a no-take zone. Removal of animal, mineral, vegetable or marine resources is prohibited. Fishing, take of trochus, extraction, removal of scrap iron, disturbance, destruction, pollution, research or survey without written permission of the President is prohibited. No living resource may be extracted, hurt, destroyed, or altered.