The international spearfishing species guide. Look up any fish and get the identification notes, the difficulty, the eating quality, and the regulations that apply where you are diving: bag limit, size limits, closures, protected status, and which spear types are legal.
Pick the species you are least sure about the rules on and search it. If the bag limit and legal spear types are not what you assumed, the app has already paid for itself.
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Spearfishing regulations are set state by state and country by country. Cross a border and the bag limit changes, the minimum size changes, the closed season changes, and sometimes the gear you are holding stops being legal.
The information is public, but it is published as a fisheries website built for desktop, or a PDF you cannot search on a boat with one bar of signal. So people rely on what a mate told them, and that is how you end up with an undersize fish or a fully protected species on the stringer.
Getting it wrong is not just a fine. Long-lived species like Banded Morwong, some over ninety years old, do not recover from being taken casually.
Spearo's Guide puts the species and the local rule on the same screen, so checking takes ten seconds instead of ten minutes.
Every mapped Australian species carries a regulation record for its state: Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
What is this fish, and what am I allowed to do with it here.
Scientific name, photo, habitat class covering reef, pelagic, inshore and invertebrate, plus the field notes that separate lookalikes.
A skill rating from beginner to expert and an eating quality score, so you know what you are taking on and whether it is worth it.
Bag limit, minimum and maximum size, seasonal closures, protected and no-take status, and whether speargun, Hawaiian sling, pole spear or hand spear is legal.
Record what you took, where and when, and build a season history instead of a camera roll you never sort.
Every Australian rule traces back to the state regulator, not to a forum post.
Queensland Fisheries, WA DPIRD, NSW DPI, the Victorian Fisheries Authority, PIRSA, Fishing Tasmania and the NT Government.
Where a species limit cannot be verified, no number is shown. The state's default or unlisted rule is noted instead.
Fully protected and no-take species are flagged plainly, including Barramundi Cod in Queensland and Eastern Blue Groper in New South Wales.
Regulations change. The guide is the fast reference, the regulator is the final word, and every entry points you back to it.
The species and regulation data is free and always will be. Pro pays for the catch log.
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All seven Australian states and territories, with a regulation record for every mapped species. Overseas coverage spans 14 countries including New Zealand, the United States, South Africa, Indonesia and the Mediterranean.
They come from the state regulator and unverified numbers are left blank rather than guessed. Regulations still change, so confirm with the regulator before you dive.
Not to look anything up. Pro at $5 a month or $50 a year adds catch logging.
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