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Hi Brian.
There is nothing to stop you from doing so unless the laws of
whereever you are spearfishing preclude spearfishing with breathing
equipment.
I understand there are some places I have read about (some
places in mexico if memory serves me) where so many fish have been taken by
scuba divers
that they made it illegal to spearfish with scuba, but you can
do it snorkeling. This is not the case where I live though. The only laws in
Florida are that you have to be so many
feet from a beach, jetty or pier and there are certain fish
you cannot spear that are protected as game fish although you can catch them on
rod and reel. Basically in my opinion
spearfishermen are maligned by the media. Huge freighters
go into the ocean and not only catch millions of tons of seafood but are a
floating factory that processes it and packages it so it is
ready for delivery as soon as they reach port. And the doggone
governments mess with the poor spearfisherman for taking a few fish.
I guess anyone with a "gun" is a bad guy these days. Unless
they are the government of course. We all know the government can ALWAYS be
trusted. Right. Lol.
Funny thing is a speargun is a misnomer. It is not a gun. A
gun is legally defined as something that fires a projectile thru the use of a
chemical that causes an explosion.
Most spearguns are rubber or air cylinder powered. A few
esoteric spearguns ARE powered by firearm type cartridges and ONLY those are
actually legally defined as a gun or to more exact, a firearm.
But as long as spearfishing is legal for scuba divers in your
area there would be nothing to stop you from doing it from say a wetsub which
would be the only way I can think of unless
you have a dry sub that has spears mounted and waterproofed
somehow in it that you control. Here's several links to pictures of the
Markham Silent Runner 2 half dry ambient sub that has a
cockpit in the front for another passenger and shows them
using a speargun.
Kindest Regards,
Bill Akins.
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