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Puerto Calero, Lanzarote

Harbour wall · Salt water · in Lanzarote

A purpose-built marina cut into the low volcanic coast between Puerto del Carmen and Playa Quemada, with a stone mole, a short pier outside the harbour mouth, and broken lava and boulder immediately outside the entrance.

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 ↓

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

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 · 3

What these strengths mean
Recorded here
At least one credible public account of this species being caught here. That is all it means.
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.

Also associated with this ground

Recorded as present here without a documented method or strength behind them.

White seabream · Atlantic horse mackerel

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Puerto Calero, Lanzarote 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

  • Mediterranean parrotfish — documented at Órzola; Arrieta and the Jameos coast; The Risco de Famara (+3 more)
  • Salema porgy — documented at Arrieta and the Jameos coast; Órzola; Papagayo and Playa Blanca (+1 more)
  • Common octopus — documented at Los Hervideros, Lanzarote; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote
  • Greater amberjack — documented at Los Hervideros, Lanzarote; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Papagayo and Playa Blanca (+2 more)
  • Comber — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Órzola; Arrieta and the Jameos coast (+2 more)
  • Dusky grouper — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote; Arrieta and the Jameos coast (+1 more)
  • Red porgy — documented at The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote; Órzola; The Risco de Famara (+1 more)

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.

Methods the sources name for this ground. Each one is explained in full on its own page.

  • Float fishing

    Suspending a bait at a controlled depth beneath a buoyant indicator — the most visual, most controllable and most widely applicable method in angling.

  • Light rock fishing

    Ultralight lure fishing from the shore with tackle rated in single grams — a discipline that catches the fish everybody else steps over, and one FishingHQ held every component of and had never named.

The ground and the water

The ground
A purpose-built marina cut into the low volcanic coast between Puerto del Carmen and Playa Quemada, with a stone mole, a short pier outside the harbour mouth, and broken lava and boulder immediately outside the entrance.
Exposure
On the sheltered southern coast, in the lee of the island from the prevailing north-easterly trade wind, which is why the sport fishing fleet is based along this stretch rather than on the north.
Depth
The volcanic slope falls away quickly outside the harbour mouth, which is what puts deep water within a short run of the berths and within reach of a rod from the outer structure.

Through the year

The months the sources attach to each species here. Where a species carries no season it is listed underneath rather than assumed to run through the year.

The months in which each species is recorded as caught at this location.
SpeciesJFMAMJJASOND
Atlantic mackerel — recorded here, recorded in May.
Bogue — recorded here, recorded in May.
Ornate wrasse — recorded here, recorded in May.

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.

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.

Sun, dehydration and fatigue — Can cause injury needing treatment

Long summer sessions on shadeless rock produce dehydration and heat exhaustion, and both degrade judgement and coordination well before they produce collapse, on ground where both are what keep somebody safe.

What reduces it: Carry substantially more water than the session appears to need, fish the ends of the day rather than the middle of it in high summer, and treat shade and a stopping time as part of the plan.

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: This is an owned and operated structure. Whether angling is allowed on it, when, from where and on what terms is the operator's decision, is frequently seasonal, and changes without notice.

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 Canary Islands autonomous government's fisheries department, which administers recreational sea fishing licensing and rules in Canarian waters.
  • The management authority of the marine reserve around the northern islets and La Graciosa, for zoning and permitted activity within it.
  • The Spanish national fisheries administration for offshore waters and for matters reserved to it.
  • The local island council and harbour authorities for shore and harbour access arrangements.

Nearby fishing

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

Puerto Calero, LanzaroteThe cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto CaleroPlaya Quemada, LanzarotePuerto del Carmen harbour, LanzarotePapagayo and Playa BlancaArrecife and Playa HondaThe Playa Dorada breakwater, Playa BlancaEl Golfo and JanubioLos Hervideros, Lanzarote
Puerto Calero, Lanzarote 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

  • Pesca deportiva en Lanzarote — the island's own guide to sport fishing — Turismo Lanzarote (Cabildo de Lanzarote) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The island authority's own description of this area, the fishing modality it names for it, and the species it gives for that modality.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Species hunting adventures on Lanzarote — a four-part shore diary with a full tally — Something Fishy Going On (angling blog), parts also posted to World Sea Fishing, 2014 (Practitioner report)Relied on for: That this mark is fished from the shore, the ground and access described from it, and the species taken there across one week in May.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
  • Sea Angler — Bauer Media (Specialist angling publication)Relied on for: Long-running published description of European sea angling practice by region, ground type and destination, including the continental marks British anglers travel to.FishingHQ's interpretation of what it saysCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • General angling website restatements of established technique — Various (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Widely restated public descriptions of which continental European places are conventionally fished and how, recorded as practitioner consensus rather than as scholarship, and not relied on for access, permission or any current rule.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly

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