La Graciosa

Fishing places on La Graciosa

One publicly documented place inside this one.

• Caleta de Sebo, La Graciosa

  Harbour wall

  The island's only settlement and harbour, a small mole on sand facing the channel between La Graciosa and the cliffs of northern Lanzarote.

  Documented here: Atlantic horse mackerel, Common octopus, White seabream

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at La Graciosa 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.

How people fish it

Practised here: Sea fishing.

The ground and the water

The ground

A small low sand-and-lava island off northern Lanzarote, with no surfaced roads, a single settlement at Caleta de Sebo and a shore of beach, low rock and shallow sand flats. Underwater the reserve authorities describe predominantly rocky, abrupt ground with abundant caves, cracks and tunnels, on a broad marine platform they call exceptional in the archipelago, with seagrass meadows of Cymodocea nodosa — sebadales — and, in places, algal cover reduced by grazing sea urchins.

Exposure

The channel between the island and Lanzarote's northern cliffs runs hard, and the north-facing shore takes the full trade-wind sea.

Depth

Shallower and more varied than the high islands, with sand flats and low reef rather than an immediate drop.

Getting there

What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-26. Car parks fill, services change and a path existing is not a path anybody may use — none of this is a guarantee of availability and none of it is permission to be anywhere.

Getting to it

An island reached only by passenger ferry from Órzola on Lanzarote, landing at Caleta del Sebo. The island has no surfaced roads and the harbour is the arrival point for everything.

Public transport

Two shipping companies run regular passenger lines between Órzola and Caleta del Sebo, and the Lanzarote interurban bus network reaches the Órzola quay on the mainland side. Between them the island is reachable without a car; sailings and fares are the operators' to publish.

Parking

• No car park at this place

  The harbour authority's own file card for this port has a field for a car park and records none. That is a statement about what the port operates, and the authority says nothing about the streets around it.

What is there

• Drinking water

  Potable water is listed among the port's services on the harbour authority's file card.

• Harbour facilities

  A working fishing and passenger harbour with electricity and water on the quays, waste collection, twenty-four-hour security, and a dry dock with a three-tonne crane and a thirty-tonne travel lift. Fuel is available to fishermen only.

• Slipway or launch

  The port operates a dry dock and lifting gear rather than a public slipway. What may be launched, and by whom, is the port's decision.

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: THE ISLAND LIES INSIDE SPAIN'S LARGEST MARINE RESERVE, and the bodies that run it publish what that means. FISHING WITH A ROD FROM THE SHORE REQUIRES NO AUTHORISATION, in the ministry's own words. From a boat it does, with distances: rod or handline no less than two miles from the integral reserve and 500 m off Roque Oeste and Montaña Clara; trolling two miles out, migratory pelagics only. A ONE-MILE CIRCLE CENTRED ON ROQUE DEL ESTE IS THE INTEGRAL RESERVE, closed to all fishing. A Canary licence is needed throughout, and the reserve keeps an information office at Caleta de Sebo.

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.

• Caleta de Sebo, La Graciosa — under 2 km · Harbour wall
• Órzola — 2–5 km · Harbour wall
• The Risco de Famara — 10–25 km · Cliff coast
• Arrieta and the Jameos coast — 10–25 km · Rock platform
• Playa de Famara, Lanzarote — 10–25 km · Surf beach
• La Santa, Lanzarote — 10–25 km · Rock platform
• The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote — 25–40 km · Rock platform
• Arrecife and Playa Honda — 25–40 km · Harbour wall

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
• Puertos Canarios: the port file cards — Puertos Canarios (Gobierno de Canarias) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The regional harbour authority describing the island's only port: services, the absence of a car park, the fishermen's association and the ferry lines.States this directlyPassage read and verified
• 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

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