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

A cultural-protection zone of Bardi Jawi Gaarra Marine Park covering the western Dampier Peninsula waters off Packer Island, on the King Sound side south of Cape Leveque. 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 18.4 km north-south by 19.9 km east-west and encloses roughly 57 km2 of water in 4 separate pieces.