What may be brought back, and from what size. All of these values come from order no. 1154-88 and its two amendments: they are marketable sizes, set for commercial fishing, not sensible sizes to shoot.
Order no. 1154-88 (PDF) · An information page with no legal force. In case of doubt, the maritime fisheries delegation decides.
The species that make up most of the catch, to scale. The bar is the order’s minimum size — not the size at which you should shoot.
Fish, cephalopods, crustaceans and shellfish, as set by order no. 1154-88 and its two amendments of 1989 and 1993.
Fish
Crustaceans
Shellfish
Cephalopods
No species matches.
It dates from 1988, amended in 1989 and then 1993. It is the most recent size text we have found, and it is nearly forty years old.
Species that are hunted today do not appear in it at all. Their absence is not permission, it is a gap — and an inspector may read it differently from you.
These are commercial sizes. They were set for the fish trade, not for a diver who picks a target before shooting. A white seabream at 14 cm is a fish that has never spawned.
The 25 cm for seabass and 30 cm for dentex you read everywhere are not Moroccan figures: they are the French sizes, copied into summaries that circulate. The Moroccan order says 17 and 12. Set yourself the 25 cm if you like — it is better for the fish, and we recommend it — but do not present it as Moroccan law.
If a more recent order exists, we would like to see it.
A size is not an authorisation. Some species may not be shot at all, and others are closed part of the year — whatever their size.
What we do not shoot