Killing Fish with Hookah Now Outlawed

Pistoleros and Encerradores are Killing
the Bay of La Paz and the Sea of Cortez

Pistoleros (night spearfishermen using hookah) and encerradores (daytime divers using hookah and driving reef fish into monofilament gill nets) are killing the Bay of La Paz. In the early 1990’s, while other methods of catching fish had rapidly declined night time spearfishing became the last productive method of killing large and profitable reef fish. During the 1990’s 25 to 40 boats killed 5-15 tons of reef fish daily, that’s over 1000 TONS EACH YEAR. 

Sea Watch sponsored a Federal Law passed and approved in 2008 yet it wasn’t published in the Diario Oficial  until the 21st of January 2015. The law of the land now says, no fish extraction using compressed air. See page 62 in the document below

October 6, 2015

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