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Bahamas · Spearfishing zone

All other Family Islands coastal zone (within 200 yards)

Prohibited zonecoastal exclusion zone

What this zone is

Overview

How spearfishing is treated at All other Family Islands coastal zone (within 200 yards).

No use of any spearfishing apparatus within two hundred yards of the coast at low water mark of any other Family Island (Regulation 6(c)).

Source

This zone is documented in the official source below.

Before you dive

License for Bahamas

Whether you need a license to spearfish here, and how to get one.

License requiredvia Department of Marine Resources (Department of Fisheries), Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources

Apply to the Minister/Director of Fisheries (Form 7); for vessels entering The Bahamas, application is made to the customs officer at the first Port of Entry. To use a spear, the applicant must request this on the permit application; when granted, the spear use is endorsed in writing on the permit by the issuing officer.

Get your license

Opens the official portal · bahamas.com

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