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Legislation for spearfishing - help needed

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Sergiu

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What i am trying to do is to put together a draft legislation that would govern spearfishing in Romania.

At the moment, there is practically no legislation specifically for underwater hunting/spearfishing, only a Fishing Law which applies to all public bodies of water in Romania. In this law there is only a reference under banned practices that "spearing, harpooning or any other pointed device used to kills aquatic life is not allowed" and it's punishable by law. It is unclear if the intention of this paragraph was to outlaw only spearing/harpooning while on land only, or it would extend to being underwater.

In any case, the country clearly needs a specific piece of legislation to regulate underwater hunting.

What i need as first line of action is similar laws from other countries, to use as model. If you have any such documents, in English, it would be great, please let me know the website of send me the documents. Any other feedback or legal advice will be much appreciated.

It's going to be a long process but I have some contacts at legislative level and with a good draft law and sustained lobby, eventually the legislation will be in place.

for the record, I do this voluntarely as i try to promote both sustainable spearfishing as well as freediving in Romania. So, no cash involved but one day, hopefully soon enough, you may be able to land a few turbots on the Romanian coastline.

Serge
 
god help us!!!!
it is so bad to go hunting with the fear in yur heart....:|
and hide allways:(
 
Hi,
I am going to move to Romania soon and I would like to learn if is there any changes for the laws and regulations?
Spearfishing is still not allowed?

Thank you for your comments.
 
Try the Italians their years a head and if your from romania the langauge is similiar the difference in Italy is that each region has different distancing laws 200 meters 500 meters from the shore line beach ,. in winter we have more freedom to fish !as the tourist season ended its 100 from shore 150 meters from left or right of port 100 meters from mouth of the port no spear fishing in side the port ,.from the boat 2 persons both of capacity to do apnea or spear fish in cause of Emergency to alert or retreive person in difficulty or assist from water,. Navigation of boat ships must have 100 meters distance from divers and the diving bouy being yellow, orange ,red with a diving flag the diving boat must also have its diving flag if not a person with a hand held flag demenstrating to others that some one be diving the law is civil not crinimal at this present time. does this help
 
Also no one is permited to charge the gun out of the water this mae prove to be a crinimal act if the gun is pointed in a threatening manner or with a ill intension or seen as i.e some one in the city centre far from the beach or lake with a loaded spear gun
 
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