Suriname

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Suriname is not a marine spearfishing destination: its Atlantic coast carries the Amazon-derived mud plume with near-zero underwater visibility and there is no developed dive/spearfishing industry or registered marine dive sites (PADI confirms an undeveloped dive sector); any realistic underwater fishing is inland (rivers, the Brokopondo reservoir). 2026-06-22 DEEPENING: although no rule specifically names spearfishing/harpoon, the official LVV Fisheries Directorate management plans (2014-2018 on gov.sr; 2021-2025) state verbatim that it is forbidden to fish in BOTH the inland waters and the fishing zone (EEZ) unless a permit can be produced, with the sole exception of fishing with a rod or a hand line ('visserij met de hengel of met een handlijn'). Because spearfishing is not rod/hand-line fishing, it falls outside this free-fishing exemption and requires a permit from the LVV Directorate of Fisheries — so spearfishing_allowed is RESTRICTED (was unknown) and license.required is TRUE (was null). The plans also confirm a 'Sport' licence category alongside the sea-fishing licences, and that licence numbers/conditions/fees are set annually by Ministerial Decree (Art. 17(1) Zeevisserijwet). Sea fishing is governed by the Zeevisserijwet (S.B. 1980 no. 144, last amended S.B. 2001 no. 120 — note this is the Act's own last amendment; the 2017 instrument is the separate Maritime Zones Act, S.B. 2017 no. 41), whose Art. 25 enables State Decrees banning specified fishing methods/areas/seasons and setting size/quantity limits; inland fishing is governed by the Visstandbeschermingswet (G.B. 1961 no. 44, amended S.B. 1981 no. 66), which mandates a permit and prohibitions. VERBATIM SOURCING: exact legal text/quotes are now held for (a) the Nature Protection Act 1954 Art. 5 (FAO/SWM legal hub), (b) the inland/EEZ permit-with-rod/hand-line-exemption rule, (c) the Visstandbeschermingswet inland-waters scope + permit, and (d) Zeevisserijwet Art. 25 — items (b)-(d) quoted in Dutch (translated:false) from the official LVV management plans (gov.sr / re-hosted LVV PDF). The Game Act (Jachtwet 1954, Art. 2) protected-species prohibition is described in catch_limits/protected_species and legal_status.summary as a NON-verbatim paraphrase only: the available secondary source (The Outlaw Ocean Project) is itself a paraphrase, and the official Dutch statute PDF (WET van 3 april 1954, SWM Programme) could not be fetched (repeated timeouts), so no verifiable verbatim Game Act quote could be obtained and the earlier paraphrase was removed from law_texts to avoid mislabelling. The full primary statute texts of the Sea Fisheries Act and Fish Stock Protection Act sit in FAOLEX but could not be fetched (PDF/403 access), so they are quoted here only via the official LVV management-plan summaries (which reproduce the Art. 25 list and the permit rule); the gov.sr fisheries portal page (gov.sr/thema/visserij) was also 403. data_confidence is now MEDIUM (was low): the general permit framework and the rod/hand-line-only free-fishing exemption are now sourced to official LVV documents, but no instrument names spearfishing/harpoon explicitly and the verbatim primary-statute text plus the exact sport/spearfishing-permit procedure and fee remain unverified. PRACTICAL GUIDANCE: any fishing in the coastal nature reserves (Galibi, Wia Wia, Coppename Monding) requires written permission and is otherwise prohibited under the Nature Protection Act 1954, Art. 5; fishing in the Bigi Pan MUMA is permit-regulated; sea turtles and marine mammals are protected under the Game Act. Confirm current rules with the LVV Visserijdienst before any underwater fishing.