Prohibited Fishing Methods

Methods of fishing with harpoons from shore or boats or diving with a hookah

The director of SeaWatch, and attorney Maria Ugarte, in 2009 sponsored and got a new federal regulation in Norma 064 approved, which prohibits the use of hookah or any source of compressed air for the extraction of fish. While, in fact, since 2009 the norm was achieved in BCS, it took the Federal Government until January 2015 to make it public in the DOF nom-064-sag.pesc.semarnat-2013 (DOF January 21, 2015 )

Fishermen fishing with hookah

Prohibited:
4.1.12 The use of nets and longlines or forms on coral reefs.

4.1.13 Hooks, fishers and harpoons for the capture of octopus in marine waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, except where it is impossible to use other fishing equipment or techniques in accordance with the technical opinion of the National Fisheries Institute .

4.1.14 The use of longlines or forms in those vessels intended for fishing recreational sports

4.1.15 The method of fishing with harpoon and fytoras from the shore, from boats or through the technique of diving with compressor (hookah) in marine waters and inland water bodies except in cases authorized by the Secretariat based on technical opinion of the National Fisheries Institute.

November 17, 2015

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