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La Gomera

Island · Salt water · in Canary Islands

A small, steep, deeply eroded island whose coast is almost entirely cliff and boulder, with a handful of harbours in the valley mouths and very little walkable shore between them.

Safety: cliffs and rock platforms — can cause serious injury or death.

What each one does, and what reduces it ↓

FishingHQ describes what this place is, not whether you may fish it. Access, permits and who to ask.

Fishing places on La Gomera

4 publicly documented places inside this one, each with its own ground, catch and access.

  • Playa de Santiago

    Harbour wall

    The island's second fishing port, on the dry southern coast at a valley mouth, with a mole, a shingle beach beside it and low rock platform running east towards the airport cliffs.

    Documented here: Mediterranean parrotfish, White seabream, Bogue and 2 more

  • San Sebastián de La Gomera

    Harbour wall

    The island capital and ferry port on the eastern shore, with a long breakwater, a dark sand town beach behind it and rock platform along the shore either side of the bay.

    Documented here: Mediterranean parrotfish, White seabream, Bogue and 2 more

  • The south-east coast of La Gomera

    Cliff coast

    Steep cliff and boulder coast on the sheltered side of the island, broken by the valley mouths at Playa de Santiago and San Sebastián, with very little walkable shore between them.

    Documented here: Greater amberjack, White seabream, Dusky grouper

  • Valle Gran Rey

    Harbour wall

    A harbour and a run of black sand and shingle beaches at the mouth of the island's largest valley, on the sheltered western side, with cliff closing both ends and deep water very close to the mole.

    Documented here: Mediterranean parrotfish, White seabream, Comber and 2 more

What you can catch here

Documented at this place, grouped by how you would be fishing, with how strongly the sources support each one. This is what has been written down, not a forecast, and being listed is never permission to fish.

From the shore · 5

What these strengths mean
Regular local target
Fishing sources describe this as a normal local target here, not merely as caught.
How breadth is counted
A fish documented at six marks is shown as six marks: breadth never raises the strength on its own. A fishery account describes the fishing; a recorded catch reports one specific catch. How evidence is weighed.

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at La Gomera itself. Each one has been documented at a named place on the same ground, and the places are listed with it. Treat this as what the water around here holds rather than as a catch list for this mark.

Widely documented on this ground

Documented at three or more neighbouring places, fished a way this place is also fished. That is a pattern about the ground rather than about any one mark, and it is the closest this site comes to saying you will probably meet a fish somewhere nothing has been written about.

From the shore

  • White seabream — documented at Punta de Teno, Tenerife; Garachico; Punta Rasca, Tenerife

Also documented at neighbouring places

One or two accounts each, on the ground around here. Enough to know the fish is caught in these waters; not enough to say anything about this place.

From the shore

How people fish it

Practised here: Sea fishing, Spearfishing.

The ground and the water

The ground
A small, steep, deeply eroded island whose coast is almost entirely cliff and boulder, with a handful of harbours in the valley mouths and very little walkable shore between them.
Exposure
The north and west take the swell; the south-east coast around Valle Gran Rey and Playa de Santiago is the sheltered side and carries most of the activity.
Depth
Among the steepest in the archipelago — the ground falls to great depth within a very short distance of the shore, which is why the island is valued for underwater fishing and for boat fishing close in.

Safety

Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death

Atlantic swell reaches the northern and western coasts with little energy lost, because there is no shelf to dissipate it. Waves at exposed lava platforms are larger and less predictable than the wind suggests, and people are washed off regularly.

What reduces it: Check swell rather than wind. Watch any platform for a sustained period before committing to it. Never fish a position you could not leave immediately, and treat undercut and blowhole ground as unsafe regardless of conditions.

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. The Canary Islands are an autonomous community licensing their own recreational sea, boat and underwater fishing, separately from mainland Spain, and the archipelago carries marine reserves in which fishing and diving are restricted or prohibited on boundaries a visitor cannot see from the shore. Measures change. Check the current position with the Canarian government's fisheries administration before going.

Particular to this water: A Canary recreational fishing licence is required, separately for shore, boat and underwater fishing. FishingHQ does not hold the current requirements — check with the Canary regional fisheries authority before fishing.

Who holds the answer:

  • The Canarian government's fisheries administration, which licenses recreational sea and underwater fishing in the archipelago.
  • The island council, for local measures and for access to the coast.
  • The marine reserve administration, where the water is inside a reserve.
  • The regional Canarian government fisheries administration, for recreational licences, sizes and species rules
  • The Spanish national maritime and fisheries authorities, for offshore and vessel matters
  • The managing authority of any marine protected area or reserve, whose zoning governs what is permitted inside it
  • Local dive centres, charter operators and clubs, for current practice and access on individual islands

Nearby fishing

Other publicly documented places within about 40 km, by distance. Positions are approximate public geography and are never exact marks.

La GomeraPlaya de SantiagoThe south-east coast of La GomeraSan Sebastián de La GomeraValle Gran ReyPlaya San Juan and Alcalá, TenerifePunta de Teno, Tenerife
La Gomera and the publicly documented places around it. Approximate positions, not marks. On a narrow screen the plot is wider than the screen and scrolls sideways inside its frame. Positions are approximate by design — they are capped at about a hundred metres and describe where a named public place is, not where fish are and not a mark. Everything plotted here is also listed below.

Sources for this place

  • EMODnet — the European Marine Observation and Data Network — The European Commission, assembled from the national hydrographic offices, geological surveys and marine institutes of the member states (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Charted bathymetry, seabed substrate and seabed habitat for European sea areas, assembled from the national hydrographic and geological surveys, at the resolution the product publishes.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • The European Environment Agency's assessments of Europe's waters, seas and coasts — European Environment Agency, Copenhagen (Conservation authority)Relied on for: Assessment of Europe's coasts and regional seas, including the condition of coastal water bodies, the pressures recorded on them and the coverage of designated sites.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands marine reserves and recreational fishing licensing — Spanish and Canary regional fisheries and environmental authorities (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: That marine reserves exist in the archipelago with zoned rather than uniform restrictions, and that a Canary recreational fishing licence is required for shore and boat fishing alike.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Tallas mínimas de captura — Canarias: minimum landing sizes and closed seasons — Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca — Dirección General de Pesca, with the Grupo de Acción Costera de Tenerife and the Cabildo de Tenerife (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: The identity of the animals the Canary fisheries directorate regulates as recreational shore-gathering species, the Canarian names it gives them, and its own statement that the table applies across all eight islands.States this directlyPassage read and verified

How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-20.

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