Croatia: spearfishing licence 2009.

[Kinky]

Dear Spearos,
pay attention: the spearfishing licence is orange.
The angling one is green.:rcard

Not all the turist offices can give you the right one. You have to be member of your national spearfishing association or member of a croatian spearfishing club for buying the licence.

That all.

Good luck!!!

All the best,

KK

 

[octopus]

Spearfishing licence (on the left, orange) cost this season 700kn for 30 days.
You have to be a member of a spearing club in order to buy a licence.
If you are not member of any club, you can get a years membership of a local club for about 50kn (on the right, white-ish).
You can buy the licence in Dubrovnik, Korcula and Ploce (in the south of Croatia).
Bag limit 5kg or one fish if bigger than 5 kg applies.
All other usual spearing rules apply.

Today exchange rates (04.06.09.):
1.00 EUR = 7.36125 kn
1.00 GBP = 8.47794 kn

 

[Kinky]

Dear Octopus,
thank you for improving this thread.

All the best,

KK

 

[FletchHR]

whoa. did not hear of the 'member of spearing club' rule before.
is that new?
I was here 3 yrs ago, and just bought a spearing license... no memberships required.

thanks for the helpful post!

sucks that one must buy 2 seperate fishing licenses for the 2 diff. types of fishing... seams silly.

 

[vali]

what means "angling"???

 

[FletchHR]

angling means fishing with a pole, reel, and line and usually 'angling' with a 'lure'...

 

[vali]

ok
thanks

 

[FletchHR]

A little more info for my fellow spearos coming to Croatia:

Amateur fishing is restricted by certain regulations. There must be no disturbance of commercial fishing; persons under 16 must not go fishing underwater with guns; aqualungs and other forms of underwater breathing equipment must not be used; underwater guns must not be used between sunset and sunrise.

Underwater fishing is totally prohibited between November 1 and March 31 (except in the case of international competitions);

a maximum of 5 kg of fish and other sea animals may be caught in any one day except during international competitions; the following are not counted in the permitted 5 kg: sharks, rays and individual fish of rare size such as sea-bass, dentex, sea-bream etc. Fish caught for sport may not be sold or exchanged for other items.

A great list of Fish Sizes you may shoot can be found here. It is from '06, so please verify before shooting.

 

[Kinky]

Thanks to you all for improving this thread.

All the best,

KK

 

[jungleman]

Underwater fishing is totally prohibited between November 1 and March 31 (except in the case of international competitions);

Everything else is true, but I don't know, where this information is from?

I'm pretty sure that spearfishing is allowed during the whole year!
(except in some special areas or habitats, for example estuary of river Neretva)
From March till October It is forbidden to spearfishing on the public beaches (I will check the dates),
and during the whole year it is forbidden to hunt in ports and harbours.

Yes and I almost forgot, the buoy is obligatory!

 

[FletchHR]

hmm... thought I gave the link to orig... will look...

 

[jungleman]

From March till October It is forbidden to spearfishing on the public beaches (I will check the dates),

I check it roflrofl
From May 1st till October 1st

 

[jungleman]

Riblje Oko - Slovo zakona

These are all laws ralated to fishing in Croatian part of Adriatic!
Unfortunately they are in croatian :head

You can see here http://riblje-oko.hr/download/zakon/Pravilnik o sportskom ribolovu na moru.pdf (second link, Clanak 9.) that anuall licence worth from January 1st till December 31st.

You can ask your lady to translate rofl:inlove

Sorry because of bad english :friday

 

[FletchHR]

nema problema moja zena iz Rovinja...

about spearfishing on public beaches... does that mean ONLY where they have actually put the rope-buoys showing where the swim area is? because I've fished many places where people are swimming... they are everywhere... :head

 

[FletchHR]

Spearfishing licence (on the left, orange) cost this season 700kn for 30 days.
You have to be a member of a spearing club in order to buy a licence.
If you are not member of any club, you can get a years membership of a local club for about 50kn (on the right, white-ish).
You can buy the licence in Dubrovnik, Korcula and Ploce (in the south of Croatia).

:rcard
well, sort of... it depends on the town I guess. Because here in Rovinj the ONLY AND ONE AND ONLY (= MONOPOLY) place where you can buy a spear fishing license is at a particular travel agency.

so, here's what they charged me:
50k = $10USD membership to club
+
50k = $10USD agency 'convenience' fee for selling me a REQUIRED MEMBERSHIP :vangry
+
700k = $140 for fishing license for foreigner 30 day license :roll eyes:

Total = $800kuna = $160USD to go spearfishing for 30days in Croatia

I TRIED to go to the "Meduza Club" to buy the membership from them and save myself the rip-off of 50k more but they apparently CAN'T sell their own membership to foreigners?! :headThey also told us we do not need a club membership to buy a license, and the club in Pula also told us on the phone that we do not need a club membership to buy the license. This is NOT true- you DO NEED A MEMBERSHIP... this law changed here 3 yrs ago. The 2 licenses (angling vs. spearing) now are separated by this fact. You do not need the membership if you are fishing with hook and line.

What's funnier is that we went to the port authority building to buy the license there, and they had NO IDEA where we should buy a fishing license. We went to police at port customs, they TOO said it's only sold at the one agency. Same story at all fishing supply shops. :head

There is a travel agency on every street corner in Rovinj, but only ONE with 'authority' to issue fishing license. :blackeye

Only good thing is that I DO have a license now, and the member ship lasts a year, so I only have to pay an additional 700k for my next 30 day license.

Happily, my buddy from Zagreb has a friend here who also loves spearfishing and wants to take us out every morning on his boat. rofl :friday

hope to post a pic if we get a good one.

 

[jungleman]

roflrofl :martial :blackeye
that's croatia!