GALÁPAGOS FISHING MAP

Fishing Hot Spots

The Galápagos Islands, 600 miles off Ecuador: Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristóbal, Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz and Puerto Villamil on Isabela. The whole archipelago is a marine reserve, so this map is about where and how visitors can fish legally. Tap any star or dot to see what it is.

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Parks & rules

Data rule: The town bays come from OpenStreetMap; they are general centers, not pinpoints, and each star says so. Docks and launches come from OpenStreetMap, and the reserves come from the World Database on Protected Areas. The Galápagos and Hermandad marine reserves, where fishing is allowed only under their own rules, are shown in dashed red. Every star shows its source when you tap it. BigJoe does not invent coordinates. The exact sources used on this map are listed under Map sources & checks below.
Select a Fishing Hot Spot on the map or from the list below.
★ Fishing Hot SpotBoat rampMarinaWreckObstructionRock (yellow = awash)Coral / rock bottomCanyonWeather/tide stationNo-fishing zone (solid red)Protected area, fishing with rules (dashed red)

Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.

Lake guides for this map

Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:

📘 Galápagos Islands

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Fishing Hot Spots by area

The three towns where licensed fishing trips start. Tap one to fly to it on the map.

Fishing in a marine reserve

The Galápagos Islands are one of the most protected places in the ocean. The whole archipelago is inside the Galápagos Marine Reserve, and the newer Hermandad Marine Reserve stretches toward Costa Rica's Isla del Coco.

Visitors can still fish, but only on licensed "pesca vivencial" (experiential fishing) trips run by Galápagos fishermen, in the zones and seasons the national park allows. Trips target yellowfin tuna, wahoo, dorado and the local grouper called bacalao, and sport fishing for marlin out of San Cristóbal is catch-and-release.

Rules: never fish on your own, from the shore or from a tour boat that isn't licensed for fishing, and never take sea cucumbers, lobsters or sharks.

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What BigJoe would bring to fish these waters.

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Map sources & checks

Coverage
Galápagos Islands. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
Map data
Hot spots
3 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap/Nominatim named place (general position, not a pinpoint) (3).
Protected areas
2 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
Chart layers (Charts button)
GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
Weather & tides
See Weather & Tides for this area: Open-Meteo weather and marine models. Tides here are estimated from a global sea-level model, not official tide tables.
Dates
This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.

⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.

See something wrong or missing? Tell us and we will check it against the source.