Danas — na samoj granici — val, vjetar i vidljivost.
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Method
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Freshness
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Presuda dolazi iz sedam čimbenika vode i sigurnosnih blokada — a ne iz deset kartica. Ići ili ne.
Kako ocjenjujemo more
Naš vlastiti model
Naš vlastiti motor prognoze — nije widget treće strane. Vaga ove čimbenike vode u jednu presudu «ići ili ne» za ovu obalu; brojčanik od 0 do 10 upravo je ta presuda, iskazana brojem.
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Valovi i pamćenje mora
Visina, period i smjer valova, uz trag nedavnih oluja — stara oluja još muti vodu, a motor to pamti.
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Vjetar i udari
Brzina i udari, sat po sat — jačina vjetra i pritisak s pučine razbijaju površinu i režu vidljivost.
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Faza plime
Vrijeme i raspon plime, kalibrirani po obali — velike sizigijske plime vuku presudu prema oprezu.
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Temperatura mora
Temperatura površine — izrazito hladno more stavlja veto na zelenu presudu.
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Struje i istjecanje
Smjer i snos struje — nosi te i vuče mutnu priobalnu vodu onamo gdje roniš.
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Oborine i prozirnost zraka
Kiša muti vodu uz obalu ispiranjem s kopna, a magla i sumaglica režu vidljivost na površini.
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Oblik obale i izloženost
Kako je obala okrenuta prema valovima — zaklonjena uvala drži vodu bistrom; izloženi rt na udaru dobiva kaznu.
Sigurnosne blokade
Prognoza grmljavinskog nevremena — trenutačno crveno, bez iznimke.
Službeno upozorenje (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — žuto, a na višim razinama crveno.
Nedostaju ulazni podaci — moguće zeleno spušta se na žuto umjesto da se precijeni.
Snažno neslaganje prognostičkih modela — zeleni dan vraća se na žuto.
Noćni sati — gdje je noćni podvodni ribolov zabranjen zakonom prozor je prisilno crven; gdje je legalan (Australija izvan NSW-a, Novi Zeland, Južna Afrika) zaustavlja se na žutom, nikad zeleno.
Sve se svodi na jednu ocjenu od 0 do 10 i jednu presudu: ići ili ne.
Prognoza, ne jamstvo — zadnju riječ ima more.
Gdje ući i gdje tražiti ribu
Ulazne točke s koordinatama
Reljef dna — obećavajuće zone
Ova presuda — u tvom džepu. Otvori aplikaciju za prozor tjedna.
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Površina
Vjetar, val i prozori mrtvog mora — kada krenuti i najbolji sati.
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Izložena obala — Sithonia south tip — sam, sa stijena
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oprez — sam sa stijena je rizično, provjeri na licu mjesta · struja 0.31 m/s
val 0.2 m u licevjetar 8 km/hvidljivost ~5 mprozor 06:00–21:00
Što nedostaje? Reci nam što bi želio vidjeti — nove točke, vrste, podatke ili funkcije. Čitamo sve.
Tvoj najbolji prozor — uz tebe. Prognoza u džepu.
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Vodeni stup
Vidljivost i što je određuje — bistrenje nakon oluje, riječni nanos, temperatura i termoklina.
Što je to
Pomorski instrument, idi / ne idi za solo lov.
spearo.app spaja vjetar, val, period vala, vidljivost, plimu, temperaturu vode i rizik u jednu ocjenu — idi na točku ili ne. Računa 7 dana unaprijed iz otvorenih pomorskih modela (Open-Meteo, IPMA), bez registracije i računa. Napravljen za solo podvodni ribolov sa stijena, gdje svaka greška skupo košta.
Uživo: 3016 točaka na 406 dionica obale — kopneni Portugal, Madeira i Azori.
Modeli određuju prozor. Hoćeš li ući, čita se tek na vodi: broji setove, prati udar mora na ulazu. Ako sumnjaš, ne ulaziš.
Ulazne točke
Gdje ući sa stijena.
Izviđene ulazne točke, obojene prema današnjem danu. Boja je stanje mora na točki, ne jamstvo: zapljuskivanje i sklizak ulaz procjenjuješ na licu mjesta.
Nobody counts level here, and there is effectively no current in the bay — that is why the water stands so clear. The flip side: whatever you stir off the bottom goes nowhere and hangs in the same spot for the next half hour. By evening after a hot day the top metre is churned by swimmers and boats, and from below it reads as a milky ceiling.
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A bay with two low arms and a rocky islet in front of the beach — the arms and the islet kill the chop and inside it is nearly always quiet. North and north-east cross the ridge of the finger and reach the water spent. This bay has exactly one hole: it faces west, and everything arriving from west and south-west walks straight in.
uvjeti
With N or NE you can come even when it blows hard: visibility holds between ten and thirty metres, the best water on the west coast. West and south-west kill the place at once — the shallow saddle between the beach and the islet is only four to five metres, the surge lifts sand off the bottom and you swim out to the far side of the reef blind.
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Problem number one here is people. It is an organised flagged beach with sunbeds, in July and August the shoreline is a solid crowd and shooting by the near rock is simply not on. Add paddleboards, inflatables and runabouts cutting straight across the bay. Fly the buoy high and stay inside fifty metres of it — here that is not a formality.
pristup
A dirt track turns off the Nikiti–Neos Marmaras road and brings you almost to the water, but in summer there is no parking to be had after eight in the morning. You kit up on the sand, enter from the beach towards the islet, cross the shallow saddle underwater and then work round its outer side, where the rock runs down to twenty-eight metres.
Reef/rock shore→28 m (35–40 max) — a famous N-Greece site, abundant Aegean species; easy W-side entry, meltemi-sheltered. Shore.
Level does nothing here, but the open gulf breathes. After several days of meltemi cold clear water rises along the reef and then a flow runs south along the shore — you feel it in your fins on the way back. At the tunnel at twenty-five to thirty metres the water is noticeably colder and clearer than up top, and the boundary between the layers is visible.
zaklon
There is nothing to shelter the east side of the finger: a shallow bay with low headlands looking straight into the open Singitic gulf, with Athos across the water. Waves from north and north-east roll the whole length of that gulf and arrive here undiminished. The only lee is the northern headland, a narrow strip along the rocks and only in a light blow.
uvjeti
Your wind here is south and south-west: it comes off the land, lays the water down and the visibility turns into the best on the whole finger. North, and especially around thirty degrees, shuts the place completely: the swell rolls right onto the reef, the shallows boil, and getting out over wet rock with fish on a day like that ends in cuts.
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The tunnel at twenty-five to thirty metres is both the draw and the trouble: do not go into it on a breath-hold with a loaded gun, no fish is worth a ceiling over your head. The outer points run down to forty-two metres, which is deeper than anyone should work alone. There is a campsite on the beach and crowds in summer — two hundred metres off swimmers.
pristup
Tarmac from Vourvourou and Sarti brings you to the campsite and you park right by the shore. You get in over sand and shingle at the northern end and then across rock — boots are not optional. The reef is a few minutes' swim out; the outer points are easier from a boat or after a long haul. The nearest dive centres are in Nikiti and Sarti.
Reef with an underwater tunnel 25–30 m, three spots to 42 m, E (Singitic) coast — lobster, moray, grouper, octopus, amberjack; clearer but meltemi/N-swell exposed, dawn best. Shore.
Nobody counts the level here. You count the gap between the two walls: a weak along-shore flow runs down that channel, drifts the small stuff and holds it against the second drop — that is where the predators sit. After rain off the Sithonia hills a brown layer lies on top for a day and you work under it, starting straight at eighteen metres.
zaklon
The west side of the finger by Kalogria: the Sithonia ridge stands like a wall between you and the meltemi, the wind spills over the top and reaches the water already spent. That is why you work here on the days the east coast is shut solid. What this shore is open to is the other way — west and south-west, across the whole Toroneos gulf.
uvjeti
Come on N or NE, even a fresh one — the water over the first wall at six to eighteen metres stays quiet. With west or south-west do not bother: the surge works the shallow ridge, sand off the beach lifts and the first wall turns to milk, while on the second at twenty-two to forty-five you can still see, but getting back out is already dangerous.
opasnost
The trap here is the second drop: it starts at twenty-two and slides to forty-five without you noticing, and the amberjack pull you down exactly there. Do not chase them along the edge and do not work alone. In summer small outboards run along this shore between the beaches, and you owe the organised beach two hundred metres.
pristup
Tarmac runs south from Nikiti along the west coast, the turn-off to the water is dirt and you park right by the beach. You get in over sand and slabs, boots help. The first wall starts a couple of minutes' swim off the shore; the second is a noticeably longer haul — plenty of people take a boat or bring gear down from Nikiti and Neos Marmaras.
Double wall reef 3–45 m (1st 6–18 m, 2nd 22–45 m) on the W coast near Kalogria — lobster, moray, grouper & amberjack; one of the best shore dives on the finger. Shore.
Kelyfos (Turtle island)Obala — Sithonia west & east
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Level means nothing here. What you count is the flow round the rock: past an isolated islet in open gulf water speeds up at the tips, pulls weakly but steadily, and on the way up it carries you off the boat without you noticing. After days of meltemi water piles into the gulf and a return flow runs along the shore. No river nearby, so the water stays blue.
zaklon
The islet has no shelter of its own — you pick the side. A bare turtle-backed rock sticking up in the middle of the Toroneos gulf: in a meltemi the south and west faces sit in its lee while the north-east one takes a short nasty chop. The gulf itself is screened from Aegean swell by the Sithonia and Kassandra fingers, so only wind chop reaches here.
uvjeti
Your best day is N or NE: the finger holds the sea back, the water on the lee face stands like glass and you see twenty metres and more. South and south-west drive fetch the whole length of the gulf — there is no lee on any side then, you cannot hold a boat off the rock, and a buoy in chop disappears within a couple of strokes.
opasnost
There is sixty metres straight under the wall and more below, no shore to reach and nowhere to surface but the boat — work with a partner and fly the buoy high, craft pass here constantly. And learn one line: if you run west from here past cape Kassandra to the Stomio lighthouse you enter the Thermaic gulf, where spearfishing is closed all year (Π.Δ. 68/2009).
pristup
Boat only: a bare rock five kilometres SSE of Neos Marmaras, no quay, no beach, no shade. Fifteen to twenty minutes from Porto Carras marina or from Marmaras itself. You anchor on the shallow two-to-five-metre shelf on the lee side and drop straight down the slope from there. The dive centres in Marmaras and Nikiti run here daily — use them as your marker.
Steep reef/wall 2–60/65 m, an islet ~5 km SSE of N.Marmaras — Toroneos (W) meltemi-sheltered; coral, moray, octopus, grouper on the wall. Boat.
Kalamitsi / Nemesis WallIzložena obala — Sithonia south tip
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Nobody counts level here. At the cape a light steady current runs along the wall: it carries you down the face for free and you have to work back against it, which you plan for. Inside the cove there is no current at all, but after a busy day the sand around the islet keeps the water milky until morning.
zaklon
Kalamitsi is a half-circle cove with a narrow mouth and a rocky islet right off the beach, forty or fifty metres from the sand. The arms of the cove hold almost anything from north through east, which makes it the calmest corner of the east coast. Let the wind swing south or south-east and it walks straight into the mouth.
uvjeti
North and even a fresh meltemi leave the cove workable — that is the whole point of it, on days when Armenistis and Sarti are already out. The Nemesis wall, though, lies outside the cape and wants honest calm: in any sea, holding a boat over it and dropping onto the drop is unpleasant. South and south-east close both at once.
opasnost
Nemesis starts at seven or eight metres and that is a lie: the wall runs to seventy, and the limit here is yours to set, not the ground's. Kalamitsi is a family beach with kids, so two hundred metres off swimmers is not negotiable. And keep the geography in mind: six kilometres round the cape lies the Porto Koufo archaeological area, where the gun is banned.
pristup
Tarmac from Sykia and Sarti brings you to the village on the southern tip of the finger and you park by the beach. You enter off soft sand, swim out to the islet forty or fifty metres off and work round its outer side, where the reef runs to thirty. Nemesis is boat only — about fifteen minutes from Kalamitsi, the same from Porto Koufo.
Double-bay reef 10–30 m; the adjacent Nemesis wall drops 15→80 m (39.9456, 23.9874) — SE tip, clear blue. Shore (Kalamitsi)/boat (Nemesis).
Porto Koufo WallIzložena obala — Sithonia south tip
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⛔ Ovdje zabranjeno
⚠️ Ova točka je u zoni s ograničenjima «Πόρτο Κουφό Σιθωνίας — ενάλιος αρχαιολογικός χώρος (ΥΑ ΦΕΚ 1710/Β/2003 · ΚΥΑ ΦΕΚ 336/Β/2004)»: ribolov je ondje reguliran (sezona, alati, dozvola), nije posve zabranjen. Pročitaj pravila zone prije izlaska.
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The level moves ten or twenty centimetres and settles nothing. What you count is the throat: the water breathes in and out through the narrow gap, and after several days of meltemi the bay pushes murky water out past the capes. The inner basin is deep and still, with a cold layer sitting near the bottom even in August.
zaklon
Greece's most enclosed harbour: a long bay bitten into the land, with a narrow throat between high rock walls. The meltemi runs over the top and barely touches the water, so inside it stays a mirror whatever the direction. Only the outer capes past the throat are open, where the rock breaks away below twenty metres.
uvjeti
There is no wind that makes this a place to come to with a gun: the bay and the water around it are a declared underwater archaeological zone and spearfishing is banned. You come for something else — to sit the weather out. With N and NE, when the east coast is all whitecaps, inside it is dead flat and you can lie here for days.
opasnost
The law is the hazard here. Porto Koufo is a declared underwater archaeological area (ΦΕΚ 1710/Β/2003 together with ΦΕΚ 336/Β/2004) and spearfishing is named in the text and forbidden. No coordinate boundary is published, so the harbour and the water around the capes both count as closed. A gun in the water here is a criminal case, not an argument about a fine.
pristup
Tarmac from Toroni and Sykia takes you straight into the village: a quay, tavernas, fuel, room for a boat and deep water right against the wall. It is a good base to work out of — fifteen to twenty minutes round the cape to Kalamitsi and the Nemesis wall, noticeably longer up the west coast to Kelyfos.
Greece's deepest natural harbour + outer capes/caves; wall 20→50–120 m on the seaward side, shallow inside — big snappers & grouper below 20 m; the all-weather bolt-hole (fully enclosed). Boat/shore.
SOLO je najveći rizik: pod vodom možeš izgubiti svijest od nedostatka kisika, tiho i sa smrtnim ishodom, bez nikoga u blizini. Solo nikad nije stvarno «sigurno». Ispod su najbolji vremenski prozori; nosi bovu, nekome reci plan i vrijeme izlaska, i pri bilo kakvoj sumnji — ne idi.
Jedan pogled ujutro — i znaš ideš li.
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Izron
Kamere, karta i referenca — pri ruci dok izranjaš.
Kamere uživo, karta i referenca
Kamere · uživo
Pogledaj vodu upravo sad.
Pogledaj kameru PRIJE polaska. Pjena, smeđa/zelena mutnoća ili valovi koji peru ulazne stijene = ne ide se. Noću ili u magli kamera je beskorisna — tretiraj to kao «nepoznato», NE «zeleno».
povezivanje sa streamom…
Sithonia — Neos Marmaras / Porto Carras, Toroneos Gulf (meteocam.gr)meteocam.gr (Cybex) u živo — Neos Marmaras / Porto Carras, Toroneos Gulf. Ugrađeno preko našeg proxyja (the stream sends no CORS). Pogledaj vodu i valove prije polaska.kamera: meteocam ↗
Nacionalne najmanje veličine + prag od 150 g (u tablici ispod); kirnja 1/dan. Podvodni ribolov zatvoren je cijeli svibanj (ΠΔ 373/1985).
Sad u sezoni
orada
Sparus aurata · 2–20 m · EU 1967/2006
lubin
Dicentrarchus labrax · 0–15 m · EU 1967/2006
cipal glavaš
Mugil cephalus · 0–8 m · min 150 g
Nema mjere EU — vrijedi samo minimum od 150 g.
hobotnica
Octopus vulgaris · 0–15 m · težina ≥750 g
Minimum po težini: ≥750 g (ΠΔ 62/2024). Ne uzimaj ženke s jajima.
kirnja glavulja
Epinephelus marginatus · 8–35 m · EU 1967/2006
Kirnja: najviše 1/dan (zajedničko ograničenje roda Epinephelus).
zubatac
Dentex dentex · 12–40 m · min 150 g
Premier reef target. No EU size — the 150 g minimum only. Ethical ≥40 cm (not law).
pagar
Pagrus pagrus · 15–40 m · EU 1967/2006
šarag
Diplodus sargus · 0–12 m · EU 1967/2006
ušata
Oblada melanura · 3–15 m · min 150 g
Nema mjere EU — vrijedi samo minimum od 150 g.
gof
Seriola dumerili · 5–30 m · min 150 g
Nema mjere EU — vrijedi samo minimum od 150 g.
lica
Lichia amia · 2–20 m · min 150 g
Nema mjere EU — vrijedi samo minimum od 150 g.
škaram (barakuda)
Sphyraena viridensis · 3–25 m · min 150 g
No EU size — the 150 g minimum only. Histamine: bleed and chill at once.
ovčica
Lithognathus mormyrus · 2–15 m · EU 1967/2006
konj
Sciaena umbra · 5–30 m · EU 1967/2006
trlja od kamena
Mullus surmuletus · 3–30 m · EU 1967/2006
kirnja golać
Polyprion americanus · 30–60 m · EU 1967/2006
Deep wreck species. Does NOT count toward the grouper limit (different genus). 45 cm — to verify.
Zakon
✓⚠️ MAY — a TOTAL spearfishing ban for the whole month, every year (ΠΔ 373/1985, art. 3§1α). This is law in force, not a draft.
✓No licence required: the was abolished in 2014 (Ν. 4256/2014) — every standing prohibition stays in force all the same.
•Recreational-fisher registry (ΟΣΠΑ / Μητρώο Ερασιτεχνών Αλιέων): Reg. (EU) 2023/2842 obliges member states to register recreational fishing, and the Greek registry is described as being prepared. We found neither an act in force nor a working registry as of 08.2026 — not confirmed. Check gov.gr before you travel.
✓Age: 16+ (under-16 spearfishing is forbidden; ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§1γ).
✓Daytime only: sunrise to sunset. Night is forbidden (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§1β).
✓Freediving only: scuba/any air-supply apparatus is banned — it may not even be carried aboard (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2γ).
✓Distances: ≥200 m from bathers, harbours, moored vessels and marked nets; no hunting in fairways or harbour entrances/exits (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§1δ/ε).
✓Buoy MANDATORY: a yellow float + a yellow flag with a red diagonal stripe and the letters «Υ.Δ.», visible from ≥300 m; stay within 50 m of the buoy (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§3).
✓Limit: 5 kg/day (or one trophy heavier than the limit). Grouper (Epinephelus) — max 1/day, not banned (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2).
✓Sale/trade of the recreational catch is prohibited (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 1§7).
✓Load the speargun only in the water — never keep it loaded out of the water (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2β). Underwater light while hunting is forbidden (art. 3§2ζ).
✓Sea urchins — 20/day per person and 30/day per boat (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2). Nets at any stage of the hunt are banned, and you may not take the catch out of somebody else's gear or nets (art. 3§2). Sponges and corals are off limits to the recreational fisher (art. 1§6).
✓Pneumatic and band guns are ALLOWED (a myth in English guides). Only spears with an explosive/chemical charge — — are banned (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2δ).
Min. sizes: seabass 25 cm · gilthead 20 cm · white seabream 23 cm · grouper 45 cm · octopus 750 g (ΠΔ 62/2024). Any fish — not under 150 g (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2στ). No-size species (dentex, amberjack, barracuda, parrotfish) — the 150 g minimum only. See the species card.
Sigurnosni protokol
Setovi: prati nizove valova ≥15 min prije ulaska; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, zapljuskivanje može ići 50 m dalje od linije pjene. Zatišje >10 min uz period >12 s = veliki set koji «kasni», NE ulazi; uđi odmah nakon što prođe cijeli set i provjeri ponovno u 30. minuti.
Izlaz PRVO: nađi izlaz I rezervni prije ulaska. Na kamenitoj obali ili obali s gromadama porast mrtvog mora od 0,5 m može onemogućiti izlazak — ostati zaglavljen/bez izlaza glavni je ubojica.
Struja na rtu: na izbočenim rtovima često postoji stalna topografska povratna struja, bez obzira na model — lociraj je, ulazi/izlazi s privjetrine, nikad ne plivaj protiv nje.
Hladnoća: neopren prema prikazanoj SST; prvi drhtaj = skok metabolizma i pad apneje → izađi na prvi ustrajni drhtaj. Ispod 15 °C ograniči izlazak na 45–60 min.
Disciplina u solo ronjenju: bova gore; nekome reci lokaciju i vrijeme izlaska; konzervativna apneja (nikad ne forsiraj u hladnoj/mutnoj/uzburkanoj vodi); vidljivost <3 m — ne ulazi.
Poslijepodnevni vjetar: na mnogim obalama vjetar jača od podneva — planiraj izlazak iz vode do podneva; kad se digne kratki val — izlazi.
UV 11:00–15:00 (UV indeks ≥6): krema za sunce i pokrij se u pauzama na površini.
Solo je temeljni rizik (hipoksični gubitak svijesti bez partnera). Bilo kakva sumnja = ne ide se.
Česta pitanja — podvodni ribolov u Sithonia
Gdje se roni u podvodnom ribolovu u Sithonia?
Sithonia ima ulaze sa stijena poput Porto Koufo Wall, Kelyfos (Turtle island) i Bahia Beach Reef. The most rugged, clearest, richest finger — reefs, islets, walls, wrecks. Ispod je svaki punkt (pristup, zaklon i opasnosti) i današnja prognoza.
Koja je najbolja sezona u Sithonia?
June to October (May closed nationally); the three peninsulas of the Thermaic Gulf are calm and shallow — an easy, reliable summer.
Kolika je temperatura mora u Sithonia?
Warm, calm, fairly shallow water, tideless; clear on the outer capes, softer inside the sheltered bays.
Je li podvodni ribolov u Sithonia pogodan za početnike?
Easy — sheltered, shallow water and simple shore entries make Halkidiki one of the friendliest places to start near Thessaloniki.
Treba li dozvola u Sithonia?
No paid licence is needed in Sithonia — the amateur one was abolished (Law 4256/2014), but a free ΟΣΠΑ registration is being introduced (check gov.gr). Breath-hold only (no scuba), a mandatory «Υ.Δ.» buoy, 16+, daytime only, and the whole of May is closed. See the guide.
Which fish can you spear in Sithonia?
The species cards list 16 species with real presence in this basin; the strongest here are orada, lubin, cipal glavaš, hobotnica, kirnja glavulja i zubatac. Minimum sizes in Greece are NATIONAL, not local: orada 20 cm · lubin 25 cm · kirnja glavulja 45 cm · pagar 18 cm · šarag 23 cm · ovčica 20 cm · konj 25 cm · hobotnica 750 g. Species with no EU size carry the 150 g floor only. Grouper (Epinephelus) — max 1/day, not banned (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2).
Is spearfishing banned in May in Sithonia?
Yes. May is a TOTAL spearfishing ban for the whole month, every year, across Greece (ΠΔ 373/1985, art. 3§1α) — so in Sithonia too. It is law in force, not a draft, and there is no local exemption. Plan June to April.
How many kilos of fish may I keep per day in Sithonia?
The daily limit is 5 kg, or one trophy heavier than the limit (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 2§2). Grouper (Epinephelus) — max 1/day. Every fish must be at least 150 g (art. 3§2στ), and selling a recreational catch is prohibited (art. 1§7). The limit is national — in Sithonia it is the same as everywhere in Greece.
✓Full ban on taking: Pinna nobilis (πίννα), corals and sponges (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 1§6 + Habitats Directive 92/43).
✓Invasives: taking the lionfish (λεοντόψαρο) is encouraged — ⚠️ venomous spines. The silver-cheeked toadfish (λαγοκέφαλος) ☠️ DO NOT EAT — deadly toxin (TTX), sale banned (Reg. 853/2004, Annex III Sect. VIII Ch. V(E)), it bites. The rabbitfish (γερμανός) is edible — venomous spines.
✓In ANY declared underwater archaeological site, and in the submerged historic sites, spearfishing is BANNED — the act names ψαροντούφεκο in so many words (ΚΥΑ ΥΠΠΟ/ΓΔΑΠΚ/ΑΡΧ/Α1/Φ41/11228/1865, ΦΕΚ 336/Β/2004, part Α §2 δ + part Β). It reaches the sites our map does not draw, too. Do not touch antiquities (Ν. 3028/2002). Map of the zones — the ENALIA geoportal (thalchor-2.ypen.gov.gr/layers/geonode:ENALIA).
•The national marine parks of Alonissos/N. Sporades and Zakynthos (Laganas): spearfishing is BANNED in the park. But Alonissos zone Β4 is not solid — ΦΕΚ 1741/Β/2011 reopened four stretches inside it (the N shore Αγ. Δημήτριος–Άκρο Απύθμενο, Μηλιά–Σπαρτίνες, όρμος Κλήμα on Περιστέρα, the Μεγάλος Αδελφός shore), while the same act creates the ΕΕΑΧ Περιστέρας, where fishing IS banned. Our layer paints the park whole, i.e. stricter than the act. Check the limits with the park authority.
•The Southern Kynouria/Arcadia diving park: Ν. 4688/2020 establishes underwater parks, but we have not read a spearfishing prohibition inside it in the act — we treat that as NOT PROVEN rather than as confirmed. The park's boundary is not on our map either (the act publishes no coordinates). Ask the Leonidio/Tyros λιμεναρχείο before you go.
•Local bans: on top of the national rules, every port authority issues its own (ΓΚΛ/ΕΚΛ and λιμενάρχης decisions). In the ΛΣ-ΕΛ.ΑΚΤ registry we counted ~163 of them that reach a speargun, across 48 ports — our map does NOT draw them. Check your own port: alieia.hcg.gr/prohibitions/local/local17.php.
•Locally STRICTER than the national rule: Corfu (Kerkyra) — from 01.04 to 31.10 spearfishing is banned within 200 m of the shore, even where nobody is swimming (απόφαση Λ/Χ Κέρκυρας 2141.1/2939/2024, ΦΕΚ Β΄3269/2024). In practice that closes shore entry on Corfu for the season. We read the act in the registry, not in the ΦΕΚ — confirm with the λιμεναρχείο.
•Locally STRICTER: Lefkada — 300 m instead of 200, and not only the speargun: ψαροντούφεκο, nets and longlines are banned within 300 m of those sea areas, beaches and shores of the port district THAT ARE USED BY BATHERS (απόφαση Λ/Χ Λευκάδας 2131.13/1477/2022, in its own words «όπου χρησιμοποιούνται από λουόμενους»). The act ran to 30.09.2022 and we found no extension; an expired act is not proof that the ban is gone. Ask the Lefkada λιμεναρχείο.
•Locally STRICTER: Symi — from 15.06 to 15.09 fishing BY ANY MEANS is banned within 200 m of beach areas and in inhabited coastal areas WHERE BATHERS ARE PRESENT OR GATHER (απόφαση Λ/Χ Σύμης 2131.13/882/2016). Separately, year-round: fishing by any means is banned inside the port and its sea zone, except line/rod fishing from land (ΓΚΛ Σύμης, art. 151, ΦΕΚ 362/Β/2004). The acts were copied from the registry, not checked against the ΦΕΚ.
•Locally: inside the ports of Lavrio and Kea spearfishing is banned across the WHOLE port water, not merely under the 200 m rule; separately, in front of the hotel beaches (ΓΚΛ Λαυρίου, art. 240, ΦΕΚ 460/Β/1978). The act was copied from the registry, not checked against the ΦΕΚ.
•Coming: two new national marine parks are being created (Ionian + South Cyclades, ~27,500 km²). NOT yet in force (ΠΔ under review, mid-2026). Once live — a trawl ban + a seasonal coastal closure 15.04–31.05; in the strict zones spearfishing will be banned. Check before the season.
⛔ Pinna nobilis (πίννα, fan mussel) — full ban on taking/killing (Habitats Dir. 92/43 Annex IV; critically endangered).
Rules change, and the local Λιμεναρχείο (port authority) may impose local restrictions. Before heading out, check the current rules and the declared archaeological zones (ENALIA).
Can I spearfish on scuba in Sithonia?
No. Freediving only: scuba and any air-supply apparatus are banned — they may not even be carried aboard (ΠΔ 373/85, art. 3§2γ). In Sithonia the rest of the national frame applies too: 16+, daytime only, ≥200 m from bathers, harbours, moored vessels and marked nets, and a mandatory «Υ.Δ.» buoy you stay within 50 m of. Pneumatic and band guns are allowed; only powerheads are banned.
