Location
Key Information
| 2,344 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 2,344 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Regulations: Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands
Boundary: ProtectedSeas (Boundary Digitized Using Best Available Data)
2.0
June 2025
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Purpose
To conserve and protect the shallow marine environment of the Shag Rocks shelf incorporating:
(1) the principal recruitment area for juvenile Patagonian toothfish;
(2) spawning grounds of mackerel icefish;
(3) a key foraging area for blackbrowed albatross, Antarctic fur seals and baleen whales
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
The following activities are prohibited:
(a) fishing;
(b) fishing vessels entering the no-take zones, except in exercise of the right of innocent passage or under force majeure.
Allowed
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.