日本スピアフィッシング協会とは

　「海に潜って魚を突き、自分で獲った魚を食べる。」それが日本古来から伝わる魚突き＝スピアフィッシングです。

　日々の生活の中で自然を感じることが難しくなって来ている現代。
自然を学び、自然の恩恵を受け、自然の中に生きると言う事を体感できる魚突きと言う素晴らしいアウトドアスポーツの地位向上と、安全に楽しく行う事のできる環境作りを目指して、日本スピアフィッシング協会を発足しました。

　近年、我々はこの魚突きの趣味人口がますます広がりつつあるのを実感しています。よって、我々は魚を突き海を感じて楽しむだけではなく、資源の枯渇や漁業と密接な関係にある海との接し方、他のマリンレジャーとの共存等、様々なことに配慮していくべき段階に来ています。

　また、現行の法制度が、より良いものに改善されるよう働きかけることも必要だと思われます。安全講習会やフィンキック講習会、魚突きの競技会スピアフィッシングジャパンカップなどの我々の活動が、わずかでもこれらの力になれるよう尽力する所存です。幸い、我々の活動の一部であるスピアフィッシングジャパンカップは、地元漁協・行政にもご理解とご協力を得ることが出来ました。

　日本スピアフィッシング協会では全ての魚突き愛好家に門戸を開いた大会を開催しており、規模としても最大のものです。魚突きがマリンレジャーとして認知され、その在り方に大きな変化をもたらす第一歩と言えるでしょう。魚突きという素晴らしい趣味の存続と発展に、皆様のご協力を頂ければ幸いです。

Spearfishing is a common activity of catching fish underwater. Outside Japan, it is widely recognized as marine leisure and well-established license system is prepared for Spearfishers and competitions held periodically. In Japan, Spearfishing has been one of marine leisure for a long time. In fact, many competitions were held in around 1960s and winners of those competitions joined World Wide Championship. A lot of people enjoyed Spearfishing in past.

Nowadays, rule and regulations for Spearfishing is not good enough; therefore, Spearfishers are often recognized as poacher. With these misunderstandings, some prefectures have established ordinances that prohibit using spears and still tightening regulations. Now you cannot say that people are recognizing this activity as ﾒmarine leisure. But on the other hand, many people are still enjoying Spearfishing under this environment. Dive in ocean and catch some fish for your own eat.In other words, Spearfishing gives you rare opportunity to learn nature and to appreciate for the blessing of nature. It's getting more and more difficult to feel nature in our daily life these days. We believe that outdoor activities are becoming more importance than ever before for everybody.

We know that the number of people enjoying Spearfishing is increasing year after year, so we believe that now is the time to learn how we should go with professional fishers and how we enjoy under limited resources and how we should corporate with people doing different marine activities. We must consider many different aspects now.

Talking to authorities to improve regulations would be one thing that we need to do. We hope that our competition and our activities are going to support the improvement in any way. Very fortunately, competition this time is fully supported by Associations of local fisheries and government.

This competition is the largest one in Japan and open for anybody who loves Spearfishing. We believe that this competition is going to be our first step to make Spearfishing recognized as marine leisure and to breakthrough the current situation. We really hope to have your understanding on this wonderful sport and your support to enjoy this sport forever.