Colombia

Povolené oblasti

• Corredor autorizado de pesca con arpón: Aeropuerto - Ensenada del Cove (Isla de San Andrés)

  Under Resolución 170 de 1998, the sole stretch of the Departamento Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina where spearfishing (pesca con arpón) is authorized runs along the west coast of San Andrés Island from the head of the airport runway (Aeropuerto Internacional Gustavo Rojas Pinilla) to Ensenada del Cove, reserved for traditional/artisanal free-diving fishers with the fishing authority's permission; spearfishing is prohibited everywhere else in the archipelago.

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Zakázané oblasti

• Parque Nacional Natural Tayronanational park (marine protected area)

  Marine and terrestrial national park on the Caribbean coast (Magdalena). All fishing, including sport/spearfishing, is prohibited; the National Parks System has reiterated the ban on artisanal fishing in its marine ecosystems.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Gorgonanational park (marine protected area)

  Pacific island national park where fishing is expressly prohibited; park rangers conduct anti-illegal-fishing enforcement inside the protected area.

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• Vía Parque Isla de Salamancanational park / via parque (protected area)

  Caribbean protected area (Magdalena) where all types of sport fishing are totally prohibited.

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• Parques Nacionales Naturales (todas las áreas marinas protegidas)national parks system (marine protected areas)

  Sport fishing is prohibited inside all National Natural Parks by Article 13 of Law 2 of 1959 and Article 2.2.2.1.15.1 of Decree 1076 of 2015. This includes marine parks such as Corales del Rosario y de San Bernardo, Old Providence McBean Lagoon, Utría and Malpelo Sanctuary. AUNAP Resolution 0549 of 2022 rules do not apply inside protected areas, where the environmental authority governs.

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• Santuario de Fauna y Flora Malpelonational park / no-take marine sanctuary (marine protected area)

  Oceanic Pacific marine sanctuary ~500 km west of Buenaventura. It is the largest no-fishing zone in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (>850,000 ha), a no-take area where all fishing — including sport/spearfishing — is banned. As a unit of the National Natural Parks System, the fishing ban rests on Law 2 of 1959 (art. 13) and Decree 1076 of 2015; AUNAP Resolution 0549/2022 recreational rules do not apply inside protected areas. Already named in the file's catch-all PNN prohibition zone; added here as a discrete mappable point.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Corales del Rosario y de San Bernardonational park (marine protected area)

  Caribbean marine national park protecting coral reefs in the Islas del Rosario archipelago (~20-23 km southwest of Cartagena, depts. Bolívar/Sucre). Sport/spearfishing is prohibited inside all National Natural Parks under Law 2 of 1959 (art. 13) and Decree 1076 of 2015; this park is explicitly named in the file's catch-all PNN prohibition. Coordinates represent the Islas del Rosario sector (the park also includes the San Bernardo sector at ~9.75N 75.85W).

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• Parque Nacional Natural Old Providence McBean Lagoonnational park (marine protected area)

  Marine national park on the northeast side of Providencia Island (Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina), protecting part of the second-largest barrier reef in the Caribbean. Sport/spearfishing is prohibited inside all National Natural Parks under Law 2 of 1959 (art. 13) and Decree 1076 of 2015; this park is explicitly named in the file's catch-all PNN prohibition.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Utríanational park (marine protected area)

  Pacific marine-coastal national park in Chocó (municipalities of Bahía Solano and Nuquí), encompassing the Ensenada de Utría. Sport/spearfishing is prohibited inside all National Natural Parks under Law 2 of 1959 (art. 13) and Decree 1076 of 2015; this park is explicitly named in the file's catch-all PNN prohibition. Coordinate is a representative center of the Ensenada de Utría.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Corales de Profundidad (Deep Corals National Natural Park)national park (marine protected area)

  Entirely submarine national park (142,195 ha, depths 34-1,234 m) off Bolívar/Sucre/Córdoba, ~32 km from the coast, protecting the San Bernardo deep-coral formation (67% of Colombia's Caribbean deep corals). As a unit of the Sistema de Parques Nacionales Naturales, all fishing except scientific-research permits is banned system-wide (Ley 2 de 1959, art. 13; Decreto 1076 de 2015), so sport/spearfishing is prohibited; the park's own page notes only a subsistence-fishing arrangement with neighboring communities.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Sanquianganational park (marine protected area)

  Pacific-coast national park (Nariño; municipalities of Mosquera, El Charco, La Tola, Olaya Herrera) protecting the Sanquianga river-delta mangrove/estuarine ecosystem. Sport/spearfishing is prohibited inside all National Natural Parks under Law 2 de 1959 (art. 13) and Decreto 1076 de 2015; only subsistence fishing by local communities is tolerated.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Uramba Bahía Málaganational park (marine protected area)

  Pacific marine-coastal national park in Bahía Málaga (Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca; 47,094 ha), a major humpback-whale breeding/calving ground, declared 4 August 2010. Sport/spearfishing is prohibited inside all National Natural Parks under Law 2 de 1959 (art. 13) and Decreto 1076 de 2015.

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• Parque Nacional Natural Bahía Portete – Kaurrelenational park (marine protected area)

  Northernmost national park of mainland South America (La Guajira, municipality of Uribia, between Cabo de la Vela and Punta Gallinas; 14,080 ha), declared 20 December 2014 to protect Wayúu ancestral marine-coastal ecosystems (mangroves, coral, lobster, grouper/snapper nurseries). Industrial mining and fishing are expressly prohibited (per its Wikipedia entry); sport/spearfishing is likewise banned as with all National Natural Parks under Law 2 de 1959 (art. 13) and Decreto 1076 de 2015.

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• Santuario de Fauna Acandí, Playón y Playonawildlife sanctuary (marine protected area)

  Wildlife sanctuary in the Gulf of Darién (municipality of Acandí, Chocó; 26,232.71 ha, ~90% marine), jointly managed with three Afro-Colombian community councils (COCOMANORTE, COCOMASUR, COCOMASECO), protecting nesting sea-turtle beaches. Industrial fishing is prohibited following its declaration, and sport/spearfishing is banned as with all units of the Sistema de Parques Nacionales Naturales under Law 2 de 1959 (art. 13) and Decreto 1076 de 2015.

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• Área Marina Protegida de la Reserva de Biosfera Seaflower (San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina)marine protected area / biosphere reserve

  Resolución No. 170 del 12 de marzo de 1998 of the environmental authority prohibits fishing with spear/harpoon-type instruments (pesca con arpón), carrying such instruments, and any related activity throughout the entire territory of the Departamento Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina — its islands, cays, shoals and ocean banks — i.e. across the whole Seaflower Biosphere Reserve / Marine Protected Area (WDPA 555636411, ~65,017 km², declared 2005, first MPA in Colombia). The rule carries one narrow, separately-mapped exception corridor on San Andrés Island for authorized traditional/artisanal free-diving spearfishers.

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• Complejo arrecifal de Quitasueño (Seaflower AMP, Sección Norte - zona No Take)no-take zone (marine protected area)

  Banco/cayo Quitasueño, the largest coral complex of the San Andrés-Providencia archipelago, forms part of the Sección Norte of the Área Marina Protegida Seaflower, designated a no-take conservation zone (zona de conservación NO TAKE) under Coralina's Acuerdo 002 of 28 June 2019 (amending Acuerdo 021 de 2005); all extractive fishing, including spearfishing, is banned there. Coralina has carried out enforcement/seizure actions against illegal fishing specifically in this No Take zone.

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• Atolón de Roncador (Seaflower AMP, Sección Norte - zona No Take)no-take zone (marine protected area)

  Roncador atoll, part of the Sección Norte of the Área Marina Protegida Seaflower, is within the no-take conservation zone (zona de conservación NO TAKE) created by Coralina's Acuerdo 002 of 28 June 2019 (amending Acuerdo 021 de 2005); Coralina's own reporting describes an illegal-fishing seizure carried out precisely in this 'Sección Norte — complejo arrecifal de Quitasueño y los atolones de Roncador y Serrana' No Take zone, where all extraction fishing including spearfishing is banned.

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• Atolón de Serrana (Seaflower AMP, Sección Norte - zona No Take)no-take zone (marine protected area)

  Serrana atoll, part of the Sección Norte of the Área Marina Protegida Seaflower, is within the no-take conservation zone (zona de conservación NO TAKE) created by Coralina's Acuerdo 002 of 28 June 2019 (amending Acuerdo 021 de 2005); Coralina's own reporting names Serrana as part of the enforced 'Sección Norte' No Take zone (together with Quitasueño and Roncador), where all extraction fishing including spearfishing is banned.

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• Santuario de Fauna y Flora Ciénaga Grande de Santa Martafauna & flora sanctuary

  Coastal deltaic-estuarine mangrove Fauna and Flora Sanctuary of the Sistema de Parques Nacionales Naturales, in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta complex (Magdalena; municipalities of Pueblo Viejo, Sitionuevo, Remolino, Pivijay, El Retén). Created by INDERENA Acuerdo No 168 of 6 June 1977 (23,000 ha) and expanded by MinAmbiente Resolución 0471 of 8 June 1998 to a total of 26,810 ha, protecting the mangrove ecosystem of the eastern sector of the ciénaga. Only conservation, recovery/control, research and education are permitted; every extractive activity — including sport fishing and spearfishing (pesca deportiva / pesca submarina) — is prohibited, on the sanctuary-specific basis quoted here plus the system-wide Parques Nacionales fishing ban (Decreto 2811 de 1974, Decreto 622 de 1977, compiled in Decreto 1076 de 2015). With Vía Parque Isla de Salamanca it forms the core zone of the CGSM UNESCO Biosphere Reserve / Ramsar site. WDPA 125.

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