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Tazacorte and Puerto Naos

Harbour wall · Salt water

The island's only significant harbour, at the mouth of the Barranco de las Angustias, with a breakwater, black sand beaches either side and the ground falling to great depth within a very short distance of the mole.

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.

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 · 4

From a boat · 2

What these strengths mean
Established quarry
Fishing sources describe this as a normal local target here, not merely as caught.
Recorded here
At least one credible public account of this species being caught here. That is all it means.
Places, accounts and sources are counted separately
A fish documented once at each of six marks is still documented once at each of six marks. Breadth is reported as a place count and never raises the strength, and sources are deduplicated across places so one publisher covering a whole coast counts as one. A fishery account is a source describing the fishing; a recorded catch is a report of a specific catch. They are counted apart because they are not the same evidence.

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Tazacorte and Puerto Naos 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.

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

  • Bogue — documented at Santa Cruz de La Palma
  • Salema porgy — documented at Santa Cruz de La Palma

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.

  • Ledgering

    Fishing a bait on the bottom held by a weight, with no float — the simplest way to fish at distance, in depth, or in wind.

  • Jigging

    Working a weighted lure with a rising-and-falling motion, usually vertically, so it behaves like a wounded or fleeing baitfish.

  • 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
The island's only significant harbour, at the mouth of the Barranco de las Angustias, with a breakwater, black sand beaches either side and the ground falling to great depth within a very short distance of the mole.
Exposure
Open west to the Atlantic; the breakwater is the island's main shelter.
Depth
Water around fifteen hundred metres deep lies within a short run of this harbour, which is why the island's boat fishing works from it and why the deep species are reachable at all.

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
A working fishing and leisure port on the western coast of La Palma at the mouth of the Barranco de las Angustias, below the town of Tazacorte. The harbour authority states that the configuration of its internal jetties gives a high degree of shelter in the inner dock, which is where the sports craft and excursion boats lie.

Parking

  • Tazacorte harbour parking

    Harbour or operator parking · Charging not established

    The harbour authority lists a car park among the port's services without stating a capacity. Whether it is charged, and what part of it is public, are the operator's to state.

Where this access information comes from
  • Puertos Canarios: the port file cards for Tenerife and the western islands — Puertos Canarios (Gobierno de Canarias) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The regional harbour authority's own numbered file card for Tazacorte, giving the facilities, the car park and the regular services it operates.States this directlyPassage read and verified

What is there

  • Public toilets

    Toilets and showers are listed among the port's services on the harbour authority's file card.

  • Drinking water

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

  • Food or shelter

    A café operates at the port. Opening is the operator's business rather than the port's.

  • Harbour facilities

    A working port with electricity and water on the quays, a fuel station, workshop services, waste collection, twenty-four-hour security, a shipping office and a dry dock with a six-tonne crane and a sixty-tonne travel lift. A seventy-two-member fishermen's association operates a point of first sale here — the largest in this programme's Canary reading.

  • Charter boats depart from here

    Six boats offering sea excursions are recorded at the port by the harbour authority.

Through the year

Fished through the year, with the winter Atlantic swell the limiting condition on the open shore.

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.

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.

Tazacorte and Puerto NaosLa PalmaSanta Cruz de La PalmaPunta de Fuencaliente, La Palma
Tazacorte and Puerto Naos and the publicly documented places around it. Approximate positions, not marks. 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

  • Sea Angler — Bauer Media (Specialist angling publication)Relied on for: Long-running published description of British sea angling practice by region, ground type and named mark.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 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
  • Canary Islands regional angling guidance sites — Various Canary-based angling and island guidance publishers (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Canary shore angling practice: the species presented as ordinary local shore quarry, the techniques used from rock and mole, and the baits.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Puertos Canarios: the port file cards for Tenerife and the western islands — Puertos Canarios (Gobierno de Canarias) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The regional harbour authority describing its own port: the facilities, the fuel station, the seventy-two-member fishermen's association and its own statement about the shelter of the inner dock.States this directlyPassage read and verified

How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-16.

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