Spearfishing in St. Martin/Maarten

[bgaddis]

Does anyone know the spearfishing laws in St. Maarten? We just bought a place down there and would love to know more about where we can go.

[sacha58]

i am in love with that Island, spent a month every summer for 4 years in Grand case.....
The spearfishing laws should be the same as in france, but no one ever aked or told me I should have a fishing license.... I used to go fishing for small snappers, groupers and open water fishes like wahoo, kingfish and what else.... never had a shark encounter. I am talking about small fishes because there is a lot of ciguatera around.....Lobsters don't have it so feel free to catch them. I found useful to have a polespear with be for bugs I could not catch by hand ;-)) .
Where in the island have you bought the house? We are thinking about going back a fifth time and, perhaps, look for something. I'd love to know some details, you can PM me if you wish.
Ciao
Alessandro

[deepdown]

I'm pretty sure you can't spear on the Dutch side, however the French side is a different story.

G

[rmo8jlt69]

what about Saba or St. Nevice, they are the sister Dutch islands, can you spearfish around them?

[deepdown]

Nope, no spearing on any of the dutch islands. Trust me! Stiff fine. I know some people whom have gotten caught on Curaçao, and it wasn't pretty. Nevis isn't Dutch by the way, so I don't know about that. Statia, Saba, Dutch part of St. Maarten Bonaire and Curaçao are of limits. I think you might have more luck around the French & British Islands...

Good luck.

Gerald

[Bahiano]

what is the matter with the Ducth???? I thought they were very liberal people. They can smoke grass and other good stuff but they can't do a little spearing :)