New Members - Please Introduce Yourselves

[malvizzu]

Hi Xkanat. Welcome to the forum. You will certainly find a wealth of information. Cheers.

[Rascal]

Hello All

I'm Mark (Rascal) from Mosta and I am new to the forum. I joined a couple of days ago and the ammount of feedback I got straight away regarding a question i posted was much appreciated.
I hope to learn alot from you guys.

Thanks once again

[Rascal]

Hi everyone. I'm Joseph from Qormi, age 23. A friend of mine suggested this forum as i'm brand new for spearfishing.
I'm trying to find some regulations about fish which can be speared, also lenght limits of captured fish. I only found
 a few, maybe there is a whole list with pics of fish etc etc. Thanks in anticipation. Keep it up.

Xkanat. 
I have found this Information regarding your question. hope it helps


The minimum sizes of fishes, measured overall, shall be according to the following schedule:

Name:                                                                                        Min  Size
Voparella and Vopa)(Boxboops)                                                                                      90mm
Arznella and Munqara (Smaris vulgaris)                                                                                          90mm
Trilja or Red Mullets (Mullus barbatus and Mullus sarmuletus) including Triljetta                                                                                         100mm
All other fishes except transparent goby (makku) & whitebait (srajdna & nemusa)                                                                                        115mm
Cuttlefish (sicca)*                                                                            75mm
Squid (klamari)*                                                                              100mm

*Cephalopods, measured from the anterior side of the eye to the posterior end of the body

A marine organism which is smaller than the minimum size specified shall not be caught, retained on board, transhipped, landed, transferred, stored, sold, displayed or offered for sale. (reg.4_Art.15_EC 1967/2006)

Scientific Name:Common name: Minimum size

Dicentrarchus labrax Sea-bass                                              25 cm
Diplodus annularis Annular sea-bream                                     12 cm
Diplodus puntazzo Sharpsnout sea-bream                               18 cm
Diplodus sargus White sea-bream                                          23 cm
Diplodus vulgaris Two-banded sea-bream                               18 cm
Engraulis encrasicolus * European anchovy                              9 cm
Epinephelus spp. Groupers                                                   45 cm
Lithognathus mormyrus Stripped sea-bream                            20 cm
Merluccius merluccius *** Hake                                           20 cm
Mullus spp. Red mullets                                                       11 cm
Pagellus acarne Spanish sea-bream                                       17 cm
Pagellus bogaraveo Red sea-bream                                        33 cm
Pagellus erythrinus Common pandora                                      15 cm
Pagrus pagrus Common sea-bream                                         18 cm
Polyprion americanus Wreckfish                                             45 cm
Sardina pilchardus** European sardine                                   11 cm
Scomber spp. Mackerel                                                        18 cm
Solea vulgaris Common sole                                                  20 cm
Sparus aurata Gilt-head sea-bream                                        20 cm
Trachurus spp. Horse mackerel, Scad                                     15 cm

[malvizzu]

Welcome to the big family Rascal.

[skip]

Welcome to the forum guys

[IL-KAXXA]

Good Morning to every body.

I'm Malcolm from Santa Lucia now living in Rabat and I am new to the forum.My primary hobby is hunting but I adore fishing and because hunting is not anymore a past time as it used to be, Now I am turning my attention to Fishing. I work as a droughtsman with the government. I joined a couple of days ago and looking forward to learn from you guys. I go mainly shore fishing.

Regards

Malcolm

[malvizzu]

Welcome to the forum Malcolm. We share the same passions of hunting and fishing but as you said, we are being limited all the time.

[SPITEC]

Welcome my friend The Box!

[matwynne]

Hi.
I'm coming on Wednesday night for 10 days to Mellieha with wife and son. Hoping for some early mornings and evening sessions. Looking to use flyrod and light spin but bringing bait tackle just in case! If all else fails I'll be drinking
Cheers
Mat

[robby017]

welcome mat........ it is trolling season in malta for dolhin fish now........ maybe you can join a cost sharing trip whilst you are here........ i should be organising a couple.......

[matwynne]

Sounds great. I'll pm my number. Thanks

[robby017]

noted...... you can remove now...... my email is robby017@hotmail.com if you'd like to give me more details of your trip.

[Saupe]

Hi all ,
 
I am Luke Schembri from Haz-Zebbug .
I am new to fishing but when I go fishing from land I use running float or paternostre and from the boat I am intrested in deep sea fishing and jigging
I just bought my first boat that it is a 14ft open boat powered with 9.9hp and 4hp Johnson
I cam across this website from Google .

Great work guys 

[caldaland]

welcome aboard luke

[malvizzu]

Welcome to the forum Luke. You will find wealth of information here.