Neretvanski kanal — speargun expressly permitted in sport fishing

Neretvanski kanal, bounded by the western headland of uvala Prapatna on the Pelješac peninsula and the points φ 43° 2,385' λ 17° 24,592' and φ 42° 59,618' λ 17° 28,392' as far as the boundary of the Malostonski zaljev i Malo more special reserve, EXCLUDING the special ichthyological reserve at the Neretva mouth, is area no. 5 of the ribolovno more with special fishing regulation under Pravilnik NN 125/2020 čl. 15, and čl. 20(2) expressly permits the use of the speargun in sport fishing there. This is an express statutory permission, not merely the absence of a ban: the drafter names »upotreba podvodne puške u športskom ribolovu« in the permitted-gear list. All general national rules still apply — sport licence, daylight only, breath-hold only, minimum age 16 (Zakon o morskom ribarstvu čl. 31), the 5 kg daily limit (čl. 33(3)) and the species limits of Pravilnik NN 48/2026 — and the carve-outs listed in the same Pravilnik are excluded from this permission. The excluded Neretva-mouth reserve and the Neretva posebno stanište immediately inshore are both carried as prohibited zones, and the Malostonski zaljev reserve to the north-west has its own permit regime. LICENCE CLASS: this permission runs to sport fishing only — a recreational licence (rekreacijska dozvola) does NOT authorise a speargun, and a sport licence (sportska dozvola) is required (Pravilnik NN 48/2026, čl. 5. st. 1: »podvodnom puškom, isključivo uz kupnju sportske dozvole«; Zakon o morskom ribarstvu, čl. 31. st. 1: »Ribolov podvodnom puškom dozvoljen je samo u športskom ribolovu«). The recreational licence is the dearer of the two — annual EUR 66.36 for 2026 against EUR 46.45 for the sport licence — and still buys no speargun right.