(1 ) Removing or damaging distinctive natural features 



(a) No person shall break, cut or similarly damage or take any coral 

 or marine invertebrate except as a result of anchoring outside the Fore Reef 



as allowed under subsection 2(a) of this section. Divers are prohibited from 

 handling coral or standing on coral formations. 



(b) No person shall take except incidentally to allowed fishing 

 activities, any tropical fish or marine invertebrate. 



(c) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any items listed in 

 this paragraph found in the possession of a person within the Sanctuary have 

 been collected or removed from within the Sanctuary. 



(2) Operation of watercraft 



All v/atercraft shall be operated in accordance with Federal rules and 

 regulations that would apply if there were no sanctuary. The following con- 

 straints also shall be imposed. 



(a) No person shall place any anchor on coral within the Fore Reef of 

 the Sanctuary nor allow any chain or rope to enter the Fore Reef in a way that 

 injures any coral. When anchoring dive boats, the first diver down shall 

 inspect the anchor to ensure that it is placed off the corals and will not 

 shift in such a way as to damage corals. No further diving is permitted 



until the anchor is placed in accordance with these requirements. 



(b) Watercraft must use mooring buoys, stations or anchoring areas 

 when such facilities and areas have been designated and are available. 



(c) Watercraft shall not be operated in such a manner as to strike 

 or otherwise cause damage to the natural features of the Sanctuary. 



(d) All watercraft from which diving operations are being conducted 

 shall fly in a conspicuous manner, the red and white "divers down" flag. 



(3) Using Harmful Fishing Methods 



(a) No person shall use or place wire fish traps within the sanctuary. 



(b) No person shall place lobster traps within the Fore Reef area of 

 the sanctuary. 



(c) No person shall use pole spears, Hawaiian slings, rubber-powered 

 arbalets, pneumatic and spring loaded guns or similar devices known as spearguns 

 within the sanctuary. 



(4) Removing or damaging distinctive historical or cultural resources 



No person shall remove, damage or tamper with any historical or 

 cultural resource, including cargo, pertaining to submerged wrecks. 



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