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- Instance of
- sport
- Subclass of
- underwater sports
- Image
- Spear fishing Peru cropped.jpg
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- Spearfishing
- topic's main category
- Category:Spearfishing
- uses
- eel spear
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Encyclopedic overview
30 sectionsContents
- History
- Traditional
- Modern
- Conservation
- Shore diving
- Boat diving
- Blue water hunting
- Freshwater hunting
- Without diving
- Equipment
- Speargun
- Polespear
- Hawaiian slings
- Wetsuit
- Weight belt or vest
- Fins
- Diving knife or cutters
- Kill spike
- Buoy and floatline
- Gloves
- Stringer
- Snorkel and diving mask
- Diver down flag
- Safety
- Management
- Competitive spearfishing
- Notable spearfishers
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Spearfisher Monument in Croatia
Spearfishing is the practice of fishing using handheld, elongated sharp-pointed tools, such as a spears, gigs, and harpoons. It was one of the earliest fishing techniques used by mankind, and has been deployed in artisanal fishing throughout the world for millennia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “spearfishing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.