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Spearing of bottomfish illegal in Mozambique???

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pr0t0c0l

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Hey Guys

I am going to mozambique and in doing some research I came across the following at a resort in barra's website:

"LICENCES AND PERMITS:
Boat launch license and fishing permits available in Inhambane. Spear fishing of bottom fish is punishable with fines of up to 10 000 000 Meticais (R3 000)."

Can anyone confirm this? Last I heard is that the scuba operators don't like spearos spearing reef fish, but I didn't think it was illegal.

And to make things more confusing it seems that FISHING for bottomfish is perfectly fine, which makes no sense as spearfishing is selective and you won't end up harming any species that you don't intend to eat and you don't contaminate the natural habitat.
 
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