Sounds like you have every reason to rant. Recreational spear fishing is such a low volume, low impact, highly selective, sustainable form of fishing. It seems often govts. & commissions seem to make the rules by consulting only the professional, commercial fisherman - the (only) ones that are a real threat to fish & sea foods stocks & environment

. That's not to say all pros. are bad, just that they are the ones equipped to do most damage - and history tells us that the professionals have an insatiable desire to increase their fleets & catch, even to the point of their own destruction by exterminating all the fish (e.g. UK herring fleets, UK pilchard industry, Med. tuna fleets) or their environment (e.g. scallop dredging, Yorkshire Blue fin tuna fishing, sandeels).