Yan Chau Tong Marine Park

To protect rich fishery resources. In this marine park there are two important ecological habitats, mangroves and seagrass beds, that act as nursery grounds for larvae and juvenile fishes and marine organisms.

Species of Concern: fishes, marine invertebrates

Restrictions

1. No person shall fish or hunt, injure, remove or take away any animal or plant by any means in or from a marine park or marine reserve.
2. No person shall take, remove, injure, destroy or wilfully disturb a nest, egg, young, or nesting ground of any protected marine and coastal species in a marine park or marine reserve.
3. No person shall have in his possession any fishing or hunting device in a marine park or marine reserve, specifically the following types:
a) Any trawl net including stern trawl, pair trawl or shrimp trawl net.
b) Any spear gun.
c) Any fishing device using high voltage electric charge for the purpose of stunning fish or animals.
d) Cha Tsai Peng (oil processing residue from tea-seeds), rotenone, phenthoate, permethrin or cyanide.
e) Dynamite or other explosives.
4. No person shall carry out water-skiing in a marine park or marine reserve.
5. No person shall within a marine reserve swim, dive or carry out any boating.
6. No person shall establish or have under his control any fish culture in a marine park or marine reserve.
7. No person shall damage any shoreline feature located on a beach, mudflat, cliff or seabed in or at the boundary of a marine park or marine reserve.
8. No person shall within a marine park or marine reserve:
(a) wilfully or negligently deface, injure, soil or defile any notice, marker, buoy, facility or installation erected, used or maintained by the Authority;
(b) wilfully or negligently obstruct or pollute in any way any pool or body of water;
(c) deposit any litter.
9. No person shall operate a power-driven vessel at a speed exceeding 10 knots at any time inside a marine park or marine reserve.
10. No person shall moor or anchor a vessel in a marine park or marine reserve except under and in accordance with a permit or at mooring buoys or mooring sites provided by the Authority.
11. No person shall within a marine park or marine reserve sell, offer or expose for sale, or let on hire, offer or expose for letting on hire, any commodity or article except under and in accordance with a permit.
12. No person shall, except under and in accordance with a permit, navigate or cause to be navigated within a marine park any specified vessel.
13. No person shall collect any marine life and resources in or from a marine park or marine reserve.
14. The Authority may, if they consider it necessary in the interests of good management, prohibit or restrict the entry into, or movement within a marine park or marine reserve or part thereof of any person, vehicle or vessel. Where a prohibition or restriction is in force in respect of a marine park or marine reserve or part thereof, no person shall, in breach of such prohibition or restriction:
(a) enter or remain in such marine park or marine reserve or part thereof;
(b) bring into such marine park or marine reserve or part thereof any vehicle or drive or cause to be driven any vehicle within such marine park or marine reserve or part thereof;
(c) bring into such marine park or marine reserve or part thereof any vessel or navigate or cause to be navigated any vessel within such marine park or marine reserve or part thereof.

To protect coral communities as well as to enhance the overall fisheries resources in Hong Kong, commercial fishing has been banned in four specified marine parks, namely the Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park (HHWMP), Yan Chau Tong Marine Park (YCTMP) and Tung Ping Chau Marine Park (TPCMP) in the eastern waters and the Sha Chau and Lung Kwu Chau Marine Park (SCLKCMP) in the western waters.

Allowed

1. A person may —(a) fish in or from a marine park under and in accordance with a permit granted under section 17(3) of the Regulation. Specifically, (i) a permit to a bona fide fisherman for fishing in or from a marine park (except a specified marine park); or (ii) a permit to a person who ordinarily resides near a marine park to which the permit relates for fishing in or from the marine park.
(b) fish in or from a special zone specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, subject to compliance with the conditions specified, opposite to the special zone, in column 3 of that Part. Specifically Tung Ping Chau Marine Park Recreational Fishing Zone.
2. A person may, under and in accordance with a permit, collect marine life and resources in or from a marine park or marine reserve for the purpose of conducting educational or scientific studies.
3. In accordance with a permit, one may navigate or cause to be navigated within a marine park any specified vessel.