Thanks Brownsd54! Excellent research!
Brownsd54 has info from the Interim Negril Marine Park Zoning Plan. The time period for the plan was a five-year period (2013-2018), which would have the plan expired as of 2018. According to their guidelines, acknowledgement of the source must be made. Here is the link:
https://www.google.com.jm/url?sa=t&s...9NULdEcDbwrTZE
Along with the above, there are a few clarifications to the posted info. Brownsd54 posted "Now the swim zone extends from the shoreline out to 300' and also from that point, another 300' from shore which is designated the "non motorized craft zone.".
To be clear, there is no extra 300ft extension for swimming. The actual wording is that the non motorized zone is a buffer zone in which swimming is not allowed. Here is the wording:
Approved and Prohibited Activities for the Non-Motorized Craft Sub-Zone
In this area no motorized vessel (including every description of a watercraft inclusive of jet skis) will
be permitted to use this zone for general operation. Permission for entry into this zone by motorized craft will be allowed solely for the purpose of ingress and egress in a manner generally perpendicular to the shoreline. Inbound and outbound vessel speeds should not exceed 3 knots.
No fishing or swimming will be permitted within this zone (i.e. between the swim zone buoys and
the line of non-motorized float balls.)
I have never seen a line of non-motorized float balls, so I am not sure that this plan was fully adopted. And the new jetski laws are much more strict than what is in the plan and supercedes the measures mentioned in the plan.
And I did not post the picture of the fishing boat, SLP did originally and it was copied here by another poster.
