---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 665.799"
title: "50"
number: "665.799"
heading: "Area restrictions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/665.799"
---

# §665.799. Area restrictions.

- (a) **Fishing is prohibited in all no-take MPAs designated in this section.**
- (b) **No-take MPAs.** The following U.S. EEZ waters are no-take MPAs:
  - (1) Landward of the 50-fathom (fm) (91.5-m) curve at Jarvis, Howland, and Baker Islands, and Kingman Reef; as depicted on National Ocean Survey Chart Numbers 83116 and 83153;
  - (2) Landward of the 50-fm (91.5-m) curve around Rose Atoll, as depicted on National Ocean Survey Chart Number 83484.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 2205, Jan. 14, 2010, unless otherwise noted.