Spearfishing is illegal in Marine Protected Areas and so is Phu Quoc
Spearfishing is actually legal in most US states, once you have your necessary license but spearfishing illegal and banned in European countries and Caribbean nations or marine protected areas so is Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam.
There are also restrictions on species, catch limits and measurements of catch. Applying a minimum size on a catch ensures that you are only taking mature adults from the population, who are more likely to have already reproduced. The number of tourists traveling to Phu Quoc Phu Quoc has been on a strong rise for the last 10 years, come with this explosive tourism industry there are good things and bad things. In this article we talk about harmful things to the nature, it is spontaneous and unprofessional local tourism development, the local provide harmful activities to marine life ecosystem: spearfishing is one of them. Few years ago, OnBird once arranged spearfishing experiences in Phu Quoc too, but after a time of operating and witnessing experiences we found that 99% of guests have no ideal on spearfishing as well as too difficult to catch qualified fish if guests are novices, the tour was seem like instagramable tour but not real experience and sometime to make guests happy, spearfishmen go to the reef (MPAs: Marine protected areas) to shot reef fish like parrotfish which is diffinitely probihited and harmful to coral reefs. When we found this we put it in the light and decided to stop this experience. There are still some special cases of hunting real big fish by local fishmen however it is usually over tourist’s skill levels, tourists just join as spectators at a expensive fee.
Sustainble Spearfishing requires an advanced skills of free-diving, advanced snorkeling, farmilized use of fishing gun, you need to be able to dive down 7-12 meters at least, wait for the fish swim pass by with long holding of breath of 1 minutes to 2 minutes, you need to know how to identify different fish species and of course safety standards for yourself and surrounding corals, it is usally very high risk experiences when joining a real spearfishing.
