Porto da Casa, Corvo

Harbour wall · Salt water · in The Azores

The only harbour on Corvo, on the island's southern coast below the village: eighty metres of quay in two sections, the outer at three and a half metres of depth and the inner at one and a half. There is an anchorage for small and medium vessels, which the authority qualifies as usable only in good weather.

Safety: boat traffic and being seen — can cause serious injury or death. 2 more points apply here.

What each one does, and what reduces it ↓

Particular to this water: A harbour record. Nothing here establishes that fishing is permitted from any part of it, and what may be done on a working quay is the port authority's decision. The water beyond it sits inside an archipelago carrying a dense network of marine protected areas and seamount closures whose boundaries are lines on a chart and are not visible from a boat; establish the current boundaries with the regional fisheries directorate before fishing.

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

How people fish it

Practised here: Sea fishing.

The ground and the water

The ground: The only harbour on Corvo, on the island's southern coast below the village: eighty metres of quay in two sections, the outer at three and a half metres of depth and the inner at one and a half. There is an anchorage for small and medium vessels, which the authority qualifies as usable only in good weather.
Exposure: The smallest inhabited island in the Azores, seventeen kilometres square, with one harbour on its sheltered southern side and nothing anywhere else. The authority's own qualification of the anchorage — good conditions only — is the measure of it.
Depth: Four metres against the quay overall, with a maximum authorised draught of three metres. The outer berth takes vessels to thirty metres and the inner to twenty.

Getting there

What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-29. 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: The village is fifty metres from the quay and the airport is a hundred, which is the whole scale of the island in one line from the port authority's own distance table. Corvo is reached by air from Flores and by the western-group ferry. Pilotage is compulsory, on VHF channel 16.

Where this access information comes from

Portos dos Açores: the ports of Flores and Corvo — Portos dos Açores, S.A., the regional port authority of the Azores, 2026 (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The coordinates, quay dimensions, depths, maximum draughts, pilotage requirement, navigation conditions, services and distances the port authority publishes for its three western-island ports.States this directlyPassage read and verified

What is there

Harbour facilities
Eighty metres of quay in two berths, an anchorage stated as usable only in good weather, and one tug available on request. No toilets, fuel, water or crane are listed by the authority, and none is recorded here.

Safety

Boat traffic and being seen — Can cause serious injury or death

Summer small-craft traffic on this coast is heavy and fast, and a swimmer, breath-hold diver or small float is nearly invisible from a planing hull until it is too close to alter course.

What reduces it: Carry a surface marker buoy with a dive flag and keep it directly above the diver, work inside marked zones where they exist, and leave water where traffic is heavy rather than trying to be seen in it.

Boat safety — Can cause serious injury or death

The banks and seamounts that produce the fishing are open-ocean ground far from shelter, sometimes with the nearest alternative harbour on a different island, and Atlantic conditions can deteriorate faster than a small craft can cross that distance.

What reduces it: Treat a seamount trip as offshore passage-making rather than as a fishing outing. Go in a boat and with people equipped for it, set a turn-round decision on the forecast before leaving, and carry the means to call for help from beyond VHF range of land.

Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death

Swell reaches the islands from any direction with no shelf to dissipate it, so waves at exposed lava platforms are larger and less regular than the wind suggests and arrive in sets rather than steadily.

What reduces it: Check swell rather than wind and check its direction. Watch a platform for a sustained period before committing to it, and never fish a position you could not leave immediately.

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. The Azores are an autonomous region of Portugal administering their own fisheries, and recreational sea and underwater fishing are licensed regionally. The archipelago also carries an unusually dense network of marine protected areas and seamount closures whose boundaries are not visible from a boat. Measures change. Check the current position with the regional fisheries directorate before going.

Who holds the answer:

The Regional Directorate for Fisheries of the Azores, which licenses recreational sea and underwater fishing across the archipelago.
The regional maritime authority, for protected areas and local measures.
The Regional Directorate for Fisheries of the Azores, for recreational licences and the rules on sizes, species and gear
The managing authorities of the archipelago's marine protected areas and seamount closures, whose boundaries govern what may be done inside them
The regional environment authority, for the crater lakes and the protected landscapes containing them
Charter skippers and dive centres, for current practice and for where the closure boundaries actually run

Nearby fishing

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

Santa Cruz das Flores — 10–25 km · Harbour wall
Lajes das Flores — 25–40 km · Harbour wall

Porto da Casa, Corvo 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

Portos dos Açores: the ports of Flores and Corvo — Portos dos Açores, S.A., the regional port authority of the Azores, 2026 (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The coordinates, quay dimensions, depths, maximum draughts, pilotage requirement, navigation conditions, services and distances the port authority publishes for its three western-island ports.States this directlyPassage read and verified
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

How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-29.

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