The Interim Negril Marine Park Zoning Plan just states on the cover 2013-2018. I am assuming that mean to the end of 2018 and would like to think that the plan will change sometime over the next few months into a permanent plan or a second interim plan implemented. There is lots of valuable regulation in the interim plan and without it may just turn into a free-for-all as it was before. Just as an example, jet ski's or PWC are required to remain outside of the "non-motorized zone" and the "swim zone" (this is the 600' I am referring to) unless they are ingress or egress from the shoreline and only perpendicular to the shore and no more than 3Knts. With out that regulation it's possible for jet ski's to be all up and down the beach again and in conflict with the swimmers again.

The swim zone and non-motorize zone was implemented in 2013 as least up by Rutland point any way. There were white buoys for the swim zone and red buoys for the non-motorized zone. The theory was that no swimmer should be outside the white buoys (300' from shore)and no boat should be inside the red buoys(600' from shore). This separated swimmers and boats by 300'. Of course nobody ever explained that the the boat operators so they just used the 2 lines of buoys as a highway on the water and just drove between the lines. And of course the large buoys were blown away after the first big wave storm but they were there for at least one season.