Hong Kong Regulations

MARINE PARKS AND MARINE RESERVES REGULATION - SECT 3

Prohibition of fishing, hunting and collecting animals and plants, etc.

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(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 except in a
special zone specified in Schedule 1.

(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) A person within a marine park or marine reserve, who is in possession of a
fishing or hunting device, plant, fish or animal, in circumstances that give
rise to a reasonable suspicion that an offence under subsection (1) or (2) has
been committed, will be presumed to have committed the offence in the absence
of evidence to the contrary. (Enacted 1996)