Fish Head / Mushimasmingili Thila MPA (Ari Atoll)

Fish Head (Mushimasmingili Thila) is a famous grey-reef-shark and Napoleon-wrasse dive pinnacle in North Ari Atoll (Alif Alif), gazetted as a Marine Protected Area (MPA, 269 ha) by the EPA under Environmental Protection and Preservation Act 4/93, decree E/95/32, declared 27 Sep 1995. Spearfishing is prohibited under the nationwide speargun ban (Section 12(a), Regulation R-75/2020) and fishing inside this Ministry-gazetted protected area is separately prohibited under Section 12(b).