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Haiti · Spearfishing zone

Aire Protegee des Trois Baies (Three Bays Marine Protected Area)

Prohibited zonemarine protected area / national park

What this zone is

Overview

How spearfishing is treated at Aire Protegee des Trois Baies (Three Bays Marine Protected Area).

Haiti's second MPA, created 11 December 2013, covering the bays of Limonade, Caracol and Fort-Liberte plus the Lagon aux Boeufs in north-east Haiti. Damaging/unsustainable fishing methods (small-mesh nets) banned; total ban on netting under 50 mm mesh, and a ban on taking sea turtles, marine mammals, aquarium fish and endangered cartilaginous fish under the 2018 inter-communal by-law. Fishing within 50 m of the boundary is prohibited under the 1978 Fisheries Decree.

On the coast

Location

Approximate reference point for this zone. See the full picture on the interactive map.

19.6800°N, 71.8400°W

View on the map

Source

This zone is documented in the official source below.

Before you dive

License for Haiti

Whether you need a license to spearfish here, and how to get one.

License: unknown — verify locallyvia Direction des Peches et de l'Aquaculture (DPAQ), Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Naturelles et du Developpement Rural (MARNDR)

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Get your license

Opens the official portal · agriculture.gouv.ht

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