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"Safe Sea" - Sports fishing

Sport fishing is allowed with the following equipment:
- small fishing net on a rod, square fishing net (with the side not longer than 6 m);
- dragnet or bell-net with a perimeter of not more than 16 m;
- fixed lines such as fishing rods (max. 5 for every fisherman) with not more than 3 hooks, dead fishing lines, bottom fishing rods, hand-fishing rods with cork, with not more than six hooks, lines for cephalopods;
- surface and ground draglines, long lines for coastal fishing;
- disc floaters for surface fishing, underwater rifle, hand spear, rod forcephalopods;

- fixed or drifting suspended fishing tackle with a maximum of 200 hooks dropped from each pleasure craft, however many people are on board;
- maximum of two fishpots/lobsterpots, suspended from each pleasure craft, however many people are on board;
- “rakes” for foot use;

Fishing with light sources is forbidden.

Sports fisherman may catch fish and molluscs (cephalopods, squid, octopuses and calamari) and shellfish in a daily quantity of maximum 5kg, except when the single fish is heavier: the sale of the catch is forbidden. Not more than one grouper fish, may be caught in one day.