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Originally Posted by JohnMckroidJr
Spearfishing pelagics is fine, but I don't see much sport in spearing groupers. Living under the same ledge for decades, a spearfisherman goes down and boom, A half century old fish is dead, instead of leaving it their for future divers to see and fisherman to hook and loose to the ledge.
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This grouper has never seen a diver in its life. each of us took no more than one, even though we saw MANY and 100 percent of them went to the village fishermen to sell and live off of. Yes i see where you're coming from, but no sport in spearing groupers?! One breath of oxygen, 70 feet deep and a powerful fish bending a metal shaft like it was a toothpick, wedging himself under a ledge isn't sporty? spending 45 minutes trying to slow your heart rate in between dives just to find which hole the grouper swam into isn't sporty? Cmon guy, save your ethical pity party for somewhere else, this fish fed a village, so maybe you're right, it wasn't very sporty.....