SPAIN & PORTUGAL FISHING MAP

Fishing Hot Spots

From the Galician rias and the Bay of Biscay down the coast of Portugal to the Algarve, through Andalusia and the Strait of Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to the Ebro Delta and the Costa Brava, and out to the Balearic Islands, the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Tap any star or dot to see what it is and what to fish there.

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Data rule: Every hot spot sits on a named, mapped place from OpenStreetMap (a marina, harbor, bay, cape, river or reservoir), looked up by name through Nominatim. Those are general positions, not pinpoints, and each star says so. Boat ramps, marinas, buoys, lights and wrecks come from OpenStreetMap and OpenSeaMap, and the marine reserves come from the World Database on Protected Areas: no-take zones in solid red, other protected areas in dashed red. Any hot spot inside or right next to a no-take reserve was taken off the map. 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.

Fishing Hot Spots by area

Marinas, harbors, rias, capes, the Strait, the Ebro Delta and the big reservoirs. Tap one to fly to it on the map.

Bluefin in the Strait, marlin in the islands and sea bass on the Atlantic

The Atlantic islands are blue-water country. Horta on Faial in the Azores is one of the most famous big-game ports in the world, with blue and white marlin, bigeye and bluefin tuna and swordfish in summer. Madeira (Funchal and Calheta) is known for giant blue marlin, and the Canary Islands, especially Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria, Los Cristianos and Puerto Calero, fish for blue marlin, tuna and wahoo most of the year.

On the mainland, the Atlantic coast from Galicia down through Portugal is sea bass country: lures and bait off the rocks and beaches at Peniche, Sagres and the Galician rias, with sea bream, meagre (corvina) and sole in the estuaries. The Basque ports of Bermeo, Getaria and Hondarribia send boats out for albacore and bluefin in the Bay of Biscay. In the Strait of Gibraltar, Tarifa and Barbate are bluefin tuna country, with amberjack on the rocks.

The Mediterranean gives dentex, amberjack, bream and grouper along the rocky coast, bluefin offshore of the Ebro Delta, and great shore fishing around Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza. Inland, the Ebro at Mequinenza and Caspe is famous for giant wels catfish and carp, and Alqueva in Portugal for black bass and carp.

Rules: Spain needs a recreational fishing license from each region (Galicia, Andalusia, Catalonia, the Canaries and so on), and Portugal needs a license from the DGRM. Bluefin tuna has its own permits, tags and catch-and-release rules in both countries. The no-take reserves (solid red) are closed to all fishing, and inside the other marine reserves (dashed red) you need a permit and must follow their rules. Many of them have an inner zone where no fishing is allowed at all.

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Map sources & checks

Coverage
Spain & Portugal (Azores, Madeira & Canaries). 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
77 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap marina or harbor (68), OpenStreetMap mapped feature (7), OpenStreetMap/Nominatim named place (general position, not a pinpoint) (2).
Protected areas
71 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.

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