Posts by psychobilly

  • No more spearfishing in puerto rico

    Roberto I understand your feeling, and while you say to try and not make this personal you know well that it is personal. They are trying to take away this sport that we love so much. I don't consider myself a freediver I'm a spearfisherman. I don't go in the water trying to break any depth records, I go in the water and hold my breath so I can hunt a decent size fish and bring it home for dinner. It's our right todo so, and we shall not give it away without a fight. The real problem here always been with the enforcement of the fishing regulations. There is none or almost non existent. There are other ways of addressing the problem of overfishing because banning spearguns is not going to do nothing about it. We all know that what's depleting our marine resources are pollution, coastal development, commercial fishing among other things. I do accept that there are ''fishermen'' that do not respect any laws regarding seasons, sizes or limits but that bring us back to what I said earlier, THERE IS NO ENFORCEMENT. It's so bad that even most of the DRNA officers don't even know about the regs themselves! What really kind of got to me was the remark about true fisherman adapting to alternate gear. WTF! I could do more damage with other gear. What about ''chinchorros'', ''palangres'', ghost traps etc. Hey some of this gear is already banned but guess what? ENFORCEMENT. What I do believe is that true fishermen respect the environment, seasons, sizes and daily bags regarding of gear used. I'm not against all commercial fishermen, after all you have to make a living, but why should I give my right to fish so others can benefit from it, especially the ones that take everything there is in the sea. I belive that the solution can be found in other areas like closed seasons, bag limits, size limits, marine reseves etc. ENFORCEMENT. Educating the people who are using the resources and especially get their sh*t toghether so when you go to their offices and ask about a fishing regulations handbook they don't give you a blank stare and tell you that they don't know WTF you're talking about.

  • No more spearfishing in puerto rico

    Where do you find the time and places where this meetings happen? Are there anymore? The guy giving the suggestions probably doesn't even snorkel. Talking about parrotfishes being depleted....they're everywhere! How about all that other sh*t that's messing the environment.....like coastal development and such? The problem with the goverment here is that they only look for the bigger interests. It's a known fact that spearfishing is the most environmentally friendly way of harvesting fish. What causes more damage? a spearo shooting a couple of nice sized muttons or a guy catching and releasing over a dozen of small baby muttons trying to catch a decent size one often killing most of the small muttons since they're so fragile. We all could give a whole bunch more examples. It's easy to sit down and give recommendations citing the works of others why don't you get wet like we do and see for yourself, why don't you do like Roberto and his puertoricofreedivers (which I'm no member) and go and host/sponsor a lionfish tournament trying to control the fish since it's far more damaging than us spearos yet you all are doing nothing about it because signing papers and laws ain't killing them, or go and clean the bottom of the sea like we do. Let's be fair with all people that enjoy the sea WICH BELONG TO US ALL.

  • Camping Culebra Island

    Attan si lees esto antes de irte no puedes usar el arpon en el area de flamenco donde estan los banistas pero si en las piedras que estan en el lado derecho de la playa (mirando hacia el mar pasando el hotel) ademas no puedes pescar en la playa Carlos Rosario ( en el parking de flamenco hay un camino que te lleva hasta alla ) Intenta Zoni o los cayos cerca de la entrada a la bahia de Culebra.

  • gracias a Dios estoy bien

    Lei la noticia hoy y pense en Anthony pero luego vi que decia que era de Dorado y me senti mejor aunque lo siento mucho por la familia de la victima. Que descanse en paz.


    De todas formas saludos Anthony si no es asi no sabemos de ti, estas perdio.:)

  • Bar-b-Q

    Hey Monster nice outcome on the BBQ. Te quedo ''nitido'' como decimos los puertorros o padrisimo como dicen ustedes los mejicanos. Nice bro...:)

  • Exciting day at Spearfishng Store

    Those are the exact same fins I got from Dan and they do make the difference. I'm not a deep diver but I do cover a lot of ground sometimes swimming against current. With my old fins ( cressi garas ) after a few hours I could feel some disconfort in my ankles and calves but I've used the pursuits up to 5 hours straight sometimes against current (and actually making progress) and up to 8 hours on a diving day and there are no disconfort whatsoever. The only thing I did to the knive was to grind the point for better penetration for braining fish. Real good gear at a good price.