---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 922.104"
title: "15"
number: "922.104"
heading: "Prohibited or otherwise regulated activities—Sanctuary-wide except in the Muliāva Unit."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/922.104"
---

# §922.104. Prohibited or otherwise regulated activities—Sanctuary-wide except in the Muliāva Unit.

- (a) The following activities are prohibited and thus are unlawful for any person to conduct or to cause to be conducted within any unit of the Sanctuary except the Muliāva Unit:
  - (1) Gathering, taking, breaking, cutting, damaging, destroying, or possessing any giant clam [Tridacna spp.], live coral, bottom formation including live rock and crustose coralline algae.
  - (2) Possessing or using poisons, electrical charges, explosives, or similar environmentally destructive methods of fishing or harvesting.
  - (3) Possessing or using spearguns, including such devices known as Hawaiian slings, pole spears, arbalettes, pneumatic and spring-loaded spearguns, bows and arrows, bang sticks, or any similar taking device while utilizing SCUBA equipment.
  - (4) **Possessing or using a seine, trammel, drift gill net, or any type of fixed net.**
  - (5) **Disturbing the benthic community by bottom trawling.**
- (b) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any items listed in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section found in the possession of a person within the Sanctuary have been used, collected, or removed within or from the Sanctuary.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 77 FR 43962, July 26, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.

### Source

Source: 60 FR 66877, Dec. 27, 1995, unless otherwise noted.