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VIRGIN ISLANDS FISHERIES (FISHING PRIORITY AREAS AND PROTECTED AREAS) ORDER, 2011 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section 1. .Citation and commencement. 2.....Fishing priority areas. 3….Protected areas. 4.....Fishing prohibited. 1 VIRGIN ISLANDS STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 2011 NO. 69 FISHERIES ACT, 1997 (No. 4 of 1997) Fisheries (Fishing Priority Areas and Protected Areas) Order, 2011 [Gazetted 17th November, 2011] The Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13 (1) (a) and (b) of the Fisheries Act, 1997 (No. 4 of 1997), makes this Order. Citation and 1. This Order may be cited as the Fisheries (Fishing Priority Areas and commencement. Protected Areas) Order, 2011 and shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of June, 2003. Fishing priority 2. The following areas identified in the maps in Part A of the Schedule are areas. hereby declared to be fishing priority areas: (a) the Great Harbour, Peter Island; (b) the Bight, Norman Island; (c) Benures Bay, Norman Island; (d) Frenchman’s Cay; (e) West Guana Island; (f) Great Camanoe. Protected areas. 3. The following areas identified in the maps in Part B of the Schedule are hereby declared to be protected areas: (a) Horseshoe Reef; (b) Hans Creek, Beef Island; (c) Beef Island Channel; (d) South Sound, Virgin Gorda; 2 (e) Taylor Bay, Virgin Gorda; (f) The Sound, Salt Island; (g) The Sound (which includes Wedgeo Bay) Ginger Island; (h) Dead Chest; (i) Big Reef, Peter Island; (j) Green Cay, Jost Van Dyke; (k) Money Bay, Norman Island; (l) Santa Monica Rock, South West, off Norman Island; (m) North Bay, Guana Island; and (n) Frenchman’s Cay. 4. No person shall engage in the fishing of any fish in the protected area Fishing otherwise than under the authority, and in accordance with the terms and prohibited conditions, of a licence issued under the Fisheries Act, 1997. No. 4 of 1997 3 SCHEDULE PART A FISHING PRIORITY AREAS (a) 4 (b) and (c) 5 (d) 6 (e) 7 (f) 8 PART B PROTECTED AREAS (a) 9 (b) and (c) 10 (d) and (e) 11 (f) 12 (g) 13 (h) and (i) 14 (j) 15 (k) and (l) 16 (n) 17 (m) Made by the Minister this 2nd day of November, 2011. (Sgd.) OMAR HODGE, Minister of Natural Resources and Labour. 18.

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