Iinalang Special Purpose Zone (cultural protection), Bardi Jawi Gaarra Marine Park (Western Australia)

A cultural-protection zone of Bardi Jawi Gaarra Marine Park covering the largest of the twelve areas, running from north-west of Swan Island past Tyra Island into Karrakatta Bay and Curlew Bay. Clause 4(2) of the Prohibition on Fishing (Bardi Jawi Gaarra Marine Park) Order 2025 — made under s.43 of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 and published in Government Gazette No. 111 on 19 September 2025 — provides that a person must not fish by any means in a Special Purpose area (cultural protection). Spearfishing is therefore prohibited. Clause 5(2) lists the only exceptions: customary fishing by Bardi Jawi people, commercial trochus take, recreational fishing from a charter boat, and shore-based recreational fishing run as part of a tourism operation under a commercial operations licence. A visiting spearfisher on a private boat or on foot is not within any of those exceptions. Measured from the gazetted polygon, the zone spans about 14.1 km north-south by 24.5 km east-west and encloses roughly 234 km2 of water in 261 separate pieces.