Sell access to your fishing spots — the location stays private

Publishing a spot does not broadcast your pin. The public map shows only a soft heat glow over a fuzzed ~10 km zone — no dots, nothing to tap through to a real point. The exact coordinates are released to exactly one audience: each person who buys or claims, in their own private app map.

A spot needs real GPS coordinates and at least one photo, and it must have been captured with the in-app camera. Publishing it stamps a roughly 500 m area lockdown for about 90 days — no other creator can list a competing spot inside your locked zone while it is active. Unlisting ends the lockdown early; when a lockdown expires, only spots caught after it ended can be listed in that area, so nobody can hoard captures to grab it the moment the clock runs out.

For a single global window of 90 days — the same window for all creators worldwide, once — spots imported from your own fishing history can also be listed, with at most 50 of these legacy listings live at a time. Once the window closes, it closes permanently: from then on, only in-app-camera captures can be listed. If you have years of marks, this is when they count.

Fishing Codex takes a 15% platform fee; payment-processing (Stripe) fees also apply — creators typically net around 80%. Money goes directly to the creator's own Stripe account; Fishing Codex never holds it. Paid listings start at $2.99 USD. You choose how to earn: sell single spots one-off, run a monthly or yearly subscription to your collection, or offer lifetime access to everything you list. Free-to-claim listings build your audience and cost nothing to list.

Fishing Codex sells access to fishing locations — never fish. New Zealand law prohibits selling recreationally caught fish (Ministry for Primary Industries). Selling knowledge of where to fish is a separate, legal activity. See the MPI recreational fishing rules for details.