"The Negril Marine Park was officially declared on March 4, 1998. The Park covers a total area of approximately 160 km2 and extends from the Davis Cove River in the Parish of Hanover to St. John’s Point in Westmoreland (Map of Negril Marine Park).
The boundaries of the Park begin at high water mark on shore to approximately two miles (3.2 km) out to sea. The Negril Coral Reef Preservation is currently managing the Negril Marine Park’s day-to-day activities through enforcement of the Marine Park Regulations with Ranger patrols, zoning and other activities including meetings and workshops.
Since November 2002 the Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society (NCRPS) has been delegated by the Government of Jamaica to manage the Negril Marine Park.
Natural resources within the park include coral reefs, sea grass beds, mangrove communities and a variety of commercially important fisheries resources and other organisms.
Through funding support from the European Union, a new building housing the Marine Park Headquarters, Visitor Centre and Gift Shop was completed in 2003." - http://negril.com/ncrps/?page_id=10
Negril
is a small (pop. 3,000) but widely dispersed
beach resort
town located across parts of two
Jamaican
parishes
of
Westmoreland
and
Hanover
.
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Negril is just about one hour and fifteen minutes drive from Donald Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay. Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, located on the south side of the
island
. Downtown Negril, the West End cliff resorts to the south of downtown, and the southern portion of the so-called "seven mile (11 km) beach" are in Westmoreland. The beach's length is the stuff of legends--it's actually little more than four miles in length, but tourists and travel writers insist on the "seven-mile" label. The northernmost resorts on the beach are in Hanover Parish. The nearest large
town
is
Savanna-la-Mar
, the
capital
of Westmoreland Parish.
