The Garajau Partial Nature Reserve is a Portuguese

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located on the

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offshore

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. The protected area has existed since 1986. It is a location for snorkelling and scuba-diving. Dive centres exist in the Garajau Reserve. The Garajau reserve is listed on ‘the MPA Global’ a marine-focused database of the world's protected areas that have some intertidal and/or subtidal component. Marine species that can be seen in the Garajau Reserve include dusky groupers (''Epinephelus marginatus''),

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(''Muraena helena'') and

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s (''Taenioconger longissimus''). Hunting and fishing are forbidden within the

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marine reserves. The second marine nature reserve in Madeira is on the north coast of the island:

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