Species
Coastal species
What bites in each area and season, which baits work and the minimum legal size of each fish.
Area
Month
Technique
38 species · November · in Canary Islands
Atlantic mackerel
Scomber scombrus · Mackerel
Atlantic horse mackerel
Trachurus trachurus · Scad
White seabream
Diplodus sargus · Sargo
Black seabream
Spondyliosoma cantharus · Black bream
Thicklip grey mullet
Chelon labrosus · Mullet
Comber
Serranus cabrilla
Saddled seabream
Oblada melanura · Saddled bream
Common two-banded seabream
Diplodus vulgaris · Two-banded bream
Greater amberjack
Seriola dumerili · Amberjack
Common octopus
Octopus vulgaris · Octopus
Red porgy
Pagrus pagrus · Red seabream
Common pandora
Pagellus erythrinus · Pandora
Bogue
Boops boops
Salema
Sarpa salpa · Dreamfish
Parrotfish
Sparisoma cretense · Mediterranean parrotfish
Pink dentex
Dentex gibbosus
Island grouper
Mycteroperca fusca
Bastard grunt
Pomadasys incisus · Grunt
Zebra seabream
Diplodus cervinus · Zebra bream
Forkbeard
Phycis phycis · Rock forkbeard
European barracuda
Sphyraena sphyraena · Barracuda
Bluefish
Pomatomus saltatrix · Tailor
Gilthead seabream
Sparus aurata · Gilthead bream
Striped red mullet
Mullus surmuletus · Red mullet
Garfish
Belone belone · Garpike
European squid
Loligo vulgaris · Squid
Common cuttlefish
Sepia officinalis · Cuttlefish
Sand steenbras
Lithognathus mormyrus · Striped seabream
Sharpsnout seabream
Diplodus puntazzo · Sharpsnout bream
Pompano
Trachinotus ovatus · Derbio
Little tunny
Euthynnus alletteratus · False albacore
Mahi-mahi
Coryphaena hippurus · Dolphinfish
Pearly razorfish
Xyrichtys novacula · Razorfish
Redbanded seabream
Pagrus auriga · Redbanded bream
European conger
Conger conger · Conger eel
Greater weever
Trachinus draco · Weever fish
Red scorpionfish
Scorpaena scrofa · Large-scaled scorpionfish
Grey triggerfish
Balistes capriscus · Triggerfish
Rules in Canary Islands
- • You need a recreational sea fishing licence.
- • Bag limit: 5 kg per person per day (or a single fish if heavier); at most 10 kg may be carried between islands.
- • Selling or trading your catch is forbidden.
- Sea bass, pollack, sole, hake and albacore, among others: declare every catch in the PescaREC app within 24 hours, including fish you release.
- • Fish are measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail; squid and cuttlefish by the mantle. If it is undersized, release it alive.
Regulation: Decree 182/2004 (Canary Islands Fisheries Act regulation) and Royal Decree 560/1995, annex III (sizes)
Checked on 23 October 2026. Rules change: if in doubt, check the official source.
Recreational fishing rules in Canary IslandsPhoto credits
- European seabass: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
- White seabream: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ballan wrasse: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Black seabream: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gilthead seabream: Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- Thicklip grey mullet: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Atlantic mackerel: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Atlantic horse mackerel: jujurenoult · CC BY 4.0
- Striped red mullet: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pouting: H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
- European conger: West Brom 4ever · Public domain
- Common sole: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pollack: Wilhelm Thomas Fiege · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Garfish: Zeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Comber: Martijn Klijnstra · CC BY-SA 4.0
- European squid: =mc2 · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Common cuttlefish: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Greater weever: Erling Svensen/Ocean Photo · CC BY-SA 4.0
- European hake: Fernando Losada Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Albacore: Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0
- Saddled seabream: Anders Finn Jørgensen · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Sand steenbras: Marrabbio2 · CC BY 3.0
- Common two-banded seabream: Anders Finn Jørgensen from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Annular seabream: jujurenoult · CC BY 4.0
- Sharpsnout seabream: Tylwyth Eldar · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pompano: Tylwyth Eldar · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Greater amberjack: SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC. · Public domain
- Little tunny: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc; Cuvier, Georges; Valenciennes · Public domain
- European barracuda: Lars Behnke · CC BY 2.0
- Meagre: Bjoertvedt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Common octopus: Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: albert kok) · Public domain
- Red porgy: Liné1 · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Common pandora: Georg Mrkvicka · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bogue: jimmyweee · CC BY 2.0
- Salema: Haplochromis · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Common dentex: Kulepen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Spotted seabass: Anatolij Michailov · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Parrotfish: Paolo Gamba from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
- Pink dentex: karimhaddad · CC BY 4.0
- Island grouper: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bastard grunt: Francois Libert · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bluefish: Conway Hawn · CC BY 4.0
- Mahi-mahi: Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0
- Pearly razorfish: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Red scorpionfish: Antoybwl · CC0
- Painted comber: Marie-Françoise · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Zebra seabream: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Forkbeard: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Grey triggerfish: Patrick Doll · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Redbanded seabream: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wedge sole: Myrabella · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Leerfish: Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Shi drum: Assistant Professor Dr. Yakup ERDEM, Sinop Univ. Fisheries Faculty · CC BY 3.0