Regulations

Sharks are classified in category B of protected species of the Polynesian Environmental Code. Thus in its article LP 2211-3, the following are prohibited:

1° Regardless of the stage of development of animal species, the destruction, mutilation, intentional disturbance, photographic or sound recording, intentional capture or removal, naturalization of living specimens including their eggs and their nests or, whether alive or dead, their transport, their hawking, their use, their possession, their offering for sale, their sale or their purchase, their import or their export;

2° Whatever the stage of development of plant species, the destruction, cutting, mutilation, uprooting, picking or removal of living specimens including their seeds, fruiting bodies or all or part of the plants, the taking of sight or, whether alive or dead, their transport, their hawking, their use, their possession, their offering for sale, their sale or their purchase, their import or their export;

3° The destruction, alteration, modification or degradation of the natural habitats of said species, including natural or artificial underground cavities.