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Dear World-Wide Spearfishing Community,

I've been reading this thread since it started but been unable to post until now (just made my first post). My name is Eric Allard, born and brought up on the coast of East Africa, and living in Tanzania since 1992 where I came as an investor.

In 2009, along with a childhood friend Nigel Spencer, I started a company in Tanzania specializing in Sport Spearfishing Charters. As with many others, Nigel and I have been spearfishing along East Africa's coast for all our lives. Of all the others (which are few and far between when compared to the number of spearos in countries like France, Italy, Spain, the US, and South Africa, just to name a few), it would be fair to say Nigel and I are most likely the most active spearos on East Africa's coast.

We are the company that took Cameron Kirkconnel, Brad Thornbrough, Craig Clasen, and Brian Head on the epic trip that landed the new and pending World Record Dogtooth Tuna that have been the subject of discussion on this thread. The point of the legality of spearfishing in Tanzania has been brought up and finally we have a chance to make a statement on that, which is as follows;

1. Tanzania is actually The United Republic of Tanzania. This republic is a union between two previously independent countries, Tanganyika (mainland) and Zanzibar (isles). To this date and although unified, both Zanzibar and Tanganyika retain semi-autonomous governments.
2. In terms of fisheries matters, both Zanzibar and Tanganyika remain independent.
3. Spearfishing - using a harpoon gun or speargun - remains by law illegal in both Zanzibar and Tanganyika i.e. Tanzania.
4. However, spearfishing is legal with a specially obtained license. The problem is getting one.
5. In 2009 our company submitted a proposal to mainland Tanzania requesting to be allowed to carry out sport spearfishing charters as a tourism activity. By then our company was duly incorporated, registered, and licensed as a tourism company. We wanted the go ahead from Fisheries to allow us to sport spearfish.
6. Mainland Fisheries duly lost our application and we re-submitted it in 2010. On the wake of special permission granted to us by Zanzibar to take His Highness the Emir of Qatar spearfishing, we also submitted the same proposal independently to Zanzibar Fisheries.
7. In October 2010 the Zanzibar Fisheries granted us with the first ever Sport Spearfishing License in Tanzania! WOW, we were pioneering change in favour of spearfishing!!!
8. In November 2010, on a live aboard vessel chartered by us from Zanzibar and with our own spearfishing boat LICENSED to Sport Spearfish by the Zanzibar Government, we took Cameron and his mates on their quest to land a new world record Dogtooth Tuna. Latham Island was where we concentrated our efforts and our several years experience in the area proved key as two days before the trip ended, and after having landed several other pending world records on the amazing pole spears that Brad makes - NOTE THAT POLE SPEARING IS ALWAYS LEGAL in Tanzania - Brad and Cameron landed the two huge doggies that are now pending world records.
9. Being that Latham Island is part of Zanzibar's territorial waters since the early 1890s, that we were licensed to Sport Spearfish by the Zanzibar Government, and that we had also obtained special licenses from mainland District Fisheries officers, there is no question that Cameron, Brad, Craig, and Brian were spearfishing legally while accompanied by a company authorized to do so. There is therefore also no question in our mind that the two new pending World Record doggies, speared by Brad and Cameron, should be ratified as new World Records.
10. Unfortunately - and Cameron and his friends are witness to this and you can see it from Dimitri Kollias' post earlier in this thread - the next day (of them spearing the two huge doggies) we sailed into Dar es Salaam and as close friends from the sport fishing community were informed of our success, a series of events unfolded that were not very pleasant to us.
11. The sport fishers in question, a couple, who run unofficial sport fishing charters out of the Dar es Salaam Yacht Club, and who were close friends and supportive of our spearfishing for the previous couple of years, went to Fisheries on the mainland and made a big issue of us spearfishing. A few days later they 'attacked' our boat while out at Latham Island - while we were fully legal having the license form Zanzibar - and while we had clients spearfishing in the water. They approached our boat screaming while Nigel and clients were in the water, picked up floats and cut the lines. Nigel had to chase them down and threaten them to return the floats, as what they had done was an act of piracy! Fortunately they returned the floats, but from then on more events unfolded that were similarly unpleasant.
12. As it stands, mainland Tanzania - or Tanganyika - has denied us a license to sport spearfish, while Zanzibar - or the isles - have renewed the 2010 license in 2011. Therefore, we continue to run legal sport spearfishing charters for our clients in 2011 and are free to move about Tanzanian waters with our licensed boat, as long as we spearfish within Zanzibar's territorial waters. We still need to understand the extent of Zanzibar's territorial waters (which could include all Tanzanian waters), but we do know for sure it does include Pemba Island, Zanzibar Island, and Latham Island.
13. Other than through us, spearfishing in Tanzania remains illegal.
14. We are confident that in 2011 we will get our mainland license as common sense takes over from misinformation.

We trust that this statement/update has somewhat clarified the situation and remain open to answering further questions on the matter. In the mean time, we congratulate Brad and Cam, as well as Craig and Brian who helped make the trip not only possible but AMAZING, on their (on their surely to be ratified) new World Records. We hope they will be back soon to improve on these new records. St. Lazarus Bank, northern Mozambique, will be next for them....

Sincerely,

Eric Allard
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