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Moken10
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Kayak "Diving" Inshore?
Moken10
Posts: 292 Deckhand
New to the forum just a quick question from the Tampa area. Is it illegal to swim the inshore flats/mangroves with a Hawiian Sling? Targeting legal fish with a dive flag from the kayak?
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You're not,just like we all do....
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Spearing is defined as "the catching or taking of a fish by bow hunting, gigging, spearfishing, or by any device used to capture a fish by piercing its body. Spearing does not include the catching or taking of a fish by a hook with hook and line gear or by snagging (snatch hooking)."
Spearfishing is defined as "the catching or taking of a fish through the instrumentality of a hand or mechanically propelled, single or multi-pronged spear or lance, barbed or barbless, operated by a person swimming at or below the surface of the water."
The use of powerheads, bangsticks, and rebreathers remains prohibited. The following is a list of species that are prohibited for harvest by spearing. Any other species not listed that are managed by the Commission, and those species not managed by the Commission, may be harvested by spearing.
■Billfish (all species)
■Spotted eagle ray
■Sturgeon
■Manta ray
■Sharks
■Bonefish
■Tarpon
■Goliath Grouper
■Snook
■Blue Crab
■Nassau grouper
■Spotted seatrout
■Red drum
■Weakfish
■Stone Crab
■Pompano
■African pompano
■Permit
■Tripletail
■Lobster
■Families of ornamental reef fish (surgeonfish, trumpetfish, angelfish, butterflyfish, porcupinefish, cornetfish, squirrelfish, trunkfish, damselfish, parrotfish, pipefish, seahorse, puffers, triggerfish except gray and ocean)
You may NOT spearfish (excluding bowhunting and gigging) as described below:
■Spearfishing of marine and freshwater species in freshwater is prohibited. Possession of a spear gun in or on freshwater is also prohibited.
■Within 100 yards of a public swimming beach, any commercial or public fishing pier, or any part of a bridge from which public fishing is allowed.
■Within 100 feet of any part of a jetty that is above the surface of the sea - except for the last 500 yards of a jetty that extends more than 1,500 yards from the shoreline.
■In Collier County and in Monroe County from Long Key north to the Dade County line.
■For any fish for which spearing is expressly prohibited by law (listed above).
■In any body of water under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection, Recreation and Parks. (Possession of spearfishing equipment is prohibited in these areas, unless it is unloaded and properly stored.)
Fishermen who catch and/or sell fish harvested by spearing are subject to the same rules and limitations that other anglers in the state are required to follow.
My posts are my opinion only.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. Will Rogers
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