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A Coruna Galicia fishing forecast

61 Good of 100

A Coruna Galicia is a saltwater fishing spot in Galicia Spain, Spain. Anglers here target Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Atlantic Mackerel, Pollock, European Seabass. The most productive months are typically June, July, August, September, October.

Quick answer
Best monthsJune, July, August, September
Top speciesAtlantic Bluefin Tuna, Atlantic Mackerel, Pollock
Score now61/100
Local rulesGalicia (augas interiores e continentais)

Today’s verdict

In line with this spot’s 7-day average

Score confidence ±4 points, from 8 live signals

The statistical model disagrees with the physics model here today — treat this score with extra caution.

Helping the score most
Water temperature+25.0Chlorophyll+18.0Waves+9.0
Pressure trend
Pressure stable — fish feeding on their usual rhythm
Next solunar peak
major 09:24

Current conditions

Live conditions are temporarily unavailable for this spot (last data Aug 23, 2026). Seasonal and regulation info below is unaffected.

What the score means at A Coruna Galicia

A Coruna Galicia currently scores 61 out of 100 (Good). Water temperature is 18.1 °C. 8 forecast signals are active in this score.

Water temperature +25.0
how close the water is to this species mix’s comfort band
Chlorophyll +18.0
plankton density — the base of the food chain
Waves +9.0
swell energy stirring the water column
Wind +8.0
surface chop, oxygen and bait drift
Thermal front +5.7
temperature edges concentrate bait and predators
Current +4.0
moving water concentrates bait

What’s biting now

The model expects today: atlantic-mackerel, bluefin-tuna, black-seabream, european-pilchard, conger-eel, tub-gurnard, comber, european-squid

[object Object] — Protected here — release immediately

Bite windows

Moon
Waxing Gibbous · 82% lit
Solunar day rating
50 / 100

Best months for A Coruna Galicia:

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Score history at this spot

7 days tracked at this exact location

Best recent day: 2026-07-30, 73/100

1 day(s) at 70+ in the tracked period

About this spot

Water type
Sea

Open coastal saltwater — conditions and safety depend heavily on the live wind, wave, and tide forecast, so check them before you head out.

Access & shore

Fishable from shore · offshore-only

What you can catch

Best months by species at A Coruna Galicia

Atlantic Bluefin TunaThunnus thynnus
Atlantic MackerelScomber scombrus
PollockPollachius pollachius
European SeabassDicentrarchus labrax

Typical months; local seasons and closures apply.

Local regulations

Galicia (augas interiores e continentais)
SpeciesBag limitMin sizeOpen season
Atlantic Bluefin TunaOrden AAA/642/2013, artículo 18; Real Decreto 347/2011, anexo II; Xunta, Orde do 27.07.2012, Anexo I-EPROHIBITED — retention banned — National, and it overrides anything the comunidad allows. MAPA: "Se prohíbe la pesca deportiva y recreativa de atún rojo, y la realización de concursos, eventos deportivos o competiciones de pesca deportiva o de recreo que tengan como fin la muerte de atún rojo. En todas estas actividades se deberá adoptar las medidas precisas para asegurar la devolución con vida al mar de todos los atunes que se capturen."
THE TRAP HERE IS GALICIAN, NOT NATIONAL. The Xunta lists "Atún Rojo o de Aleta Azul (Thunnus thynnus)" among the species a recreational licence covers, and sets a 25 kg per licence per day allowance for "grandes pelágicos — túnidos y pez espada o especies afines". Read alone that looks like permission to keep bluefin. It is not: retention is prohibited nationwide and every tuna caught must go back alive. The 25 kg allowance is for the OTHER large pelagics (albacore, bigeye, bonito). Catch-and-release of bluefin is possible only 16 June – 14 October and only with the Anexo II authorisation under Real Decreto 347/2011; outside that window even catch-and-release is closed. The 115 cm / 30 kg minimum size printed in the Xunta's Anexo I-E exists only for the accidental-mortality exception and must not be read as a keep size. See ES_PACK for the full national treatment.
Atlantic MackerelOrde do 27 de xullo de 2012, Anexo I-A; Reglamento (UE) 2019/1241 Anexo VII Parte Amin 20 cm
20 cm. The Galician row covers the genus ("Xardas | Scomber spp"), so it also binds the chub mackerel / estornino (Scomber colias). The EU figure for south-western waters is likewise 20 cm and applies expressly to recreational fishing; the Mediterranean figure is 18 cm and Catalonia sets 28 cm. ES_PACK already publishes 20 cm nationally, so this pack does not change what a Galician angler sees — it just gives it a Galician source.
European SeabassReglamento (UE) 2019/1241, Anexo VII Parte A, párrafo final sobre pesca recreativa (texto consolidado ES — 01.01.2025); cf. Orde do 27 de xullo de 2012, Anexo I-A (36 cm) y su nota 2 sobre el límite CIEM VIII/IX en Fisterramin 42 cm
CONFLICT, RESOLVED THE STRICT WAY — AND THE BOUNDARY IS NOW PINNED DOWN. Galicia's own order publishes 36 cm ("Robaliza | Dicentrarchus labrax | 36 cm"). Reglamento (UE) 2019/1241, Anexo VII Parte A, prints 36 cm for south-western waters as a whole and then adds, in the paragraph that closes Parte A, a SEPARATE RECREATIONAL figure of 42 cm that applies "en la subzona 8 del CIEM". Galicia straddles the ICES 8/9 line, and the 2026-08-11 re-verification located that line in an official Galician source for the first time: the Xunta's own anchovy footnote on the same size table fixes it at CABO FISTERRA — "o tamaño mínimo do bocarte (Engraulis encrasicolus) será de 10 cm na zona IX CIEM (Fisterra sur) e 12 cm na zona VIII CIEM (Fisterra norte)". Fisterra is at roughly 42.91 °N, so FishRadar's two Galician spots fall on OPPOSITE SIDES OF IT: A Coruña (43.37 °N) is ICES 8 and takes 42 cm; Vigo and the Rías Baixas (42.24 °N) are ICES 9 and take 36 cm. `SpeciesRule` has no zone field and one pack must serve both, so this publishes the stricter 42 cm. IF YOU ARE SOUTH OF FISTERRA THE LEGAL MINIMUM IS 36 cm and a 38 cm fish is lawful — check the Xunta table before releasing one. This is the same figure ES_PACK carries nationally. No Galician daily count exists for bass; the 5 kg per licence per day cap in aggregateLimits is what binds you.
PollockOrde do 27 de xullo de 2012, Anexo I-A; Reglamento (UE) 2019/1241 Anexo VII Parte Amin 30 cm
30 cm; the EU south-western-waters recreational MCRS is also 30 cm. Sources agree.

All species combined

  • maximum 5 kg total per day — THE GALICIAN LIMIT IS A WEIGHT, AND IT IS THE RULE MOST OFTEN BROKEN. Five kilograms per licence per day across everything you keep, in every modality. One single piece heavier than the cap may be excluded from the calculation and you may hold only ONE such piece. From a 7th-list boat the same 5 kg per licence applies with a ceiling of 16 kg for the whole boat per day once more than three licence holders are aboard; from a 6th-list boat it is 5 kg per person. Large pelagics — tunas and swordfish "o especies afines" — have their own 25 kg per licence per day allowance with a 50 kg per boat per day ceiling when two or more licence holders are aboard, but bluefin may not be retained at all and swordfish is nationally prohibited. Octopus is capped at two pieces per fisher per day. GEAR: two rods or lines per licence with a maximum of six hooks in total; artificial lures count as hooks; the rasca or rañeira is excluded and anything else is antirregulamentario. BAIT you may collect: 50 polychaetes, 40 crabs (Pachygrapsus marmoratus and Carcinus maenas combined), 200 g of sand hoppers, 100 g of shrimp — and the common prawn Palaemon serratus may NOT be taken. TIMES: surface fishing is allowed every day of the year, but boat fishing and spearfishing are daylight only, between sunrise and sunset; spearfishing is additionally restricted to Saturdays, Sundays and national or Galician public holidays, except from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday and from 1 May to 30 September when it is allowed daily. PLACES: surface fishing is prohibited within 100 m of beaches in use by bathers and boats must stay 100 m from working fishing vessels and marked professional gear; spearfishing is prohibited inside every ría behind the lines listed by the Xunta and within 250 m of the Coelleiras, Farallóns, Ansarón, Aguillóns, Sisargas, Lobeiras and As Basoñas islands. Catches may never be sold. THE LICENCE COVERS ONLY CEPHALOPODS AND FISH: percebe, nécora, centola, ameixa and every other crustacean or bivalve require a marisqueo licence, not this one.

Licensing:

  • saltwater-recreational — residents Licenza de pesca marítima de recreo da Xunta de Galicia, dúas clases. Clase A (superficie), que habilita para pescar desde terra ou desde unha embarcación da lista 7ª: 4,01 € ao ano, 3,21 € ao mes. Clase C (submarina), nadando ou mergullando en apnea: 15,16 € ao ano, 7,58 € ao mes. Clase B, para o titular dunha embarcación da lista 6ª empregada en actividades recreativas con interese lucrativo: 79,76 € ao ano, 19,95 € ao mes. Idade mínima 16 anos nas dúas clases. Vixencia dun ano, renovable cunha antelación mínima de dous meses; existen tamén licenzas temporais dun mes, revalidables por outro mes dentro do mesmo ano natural. A licenza submarina esixe ademais certificado médico oficial, seguro de accidentes e responsabilidade civil e licenza de armas ou tarxeta federativa. Autorización de concursos e campionatos: 24,81 €., non-residents Licences issued by the Spanish State, by another EU Member State or by another autonomous community are fully valid in Galician waters — the Xunta states this explicitly — but their holders must still comply with the Galician rules in this pack. Note that this is NOT reciprocal with Catalonia, which since Ley 5/2023 only recognises licences from the same fishing ground (calador): a Galician licence is not valid on the Catalan coast. Under-16s are exempt from the surface licence but must be able to prove their age to the Servizo de Protección de Recursos; under-16s who are not emancipated need parental consent for the spearfishing licence.
  • freshwater-recreational — residents Licenza de pesca continental da Xunta de Galicia, esixida pola Ley 2/2021, de 8 de enero, de pesca continental de Galicia, e ademais o permiso do coto cando se pesque nun coto. Os permisos de coto son diarios; na zona EB-do-Eo e nos tramos compartidos con Asturias aplícanse regras propias. FishRadar non publica as tarifas de licenza continental: non foron consultadas nunha páxina oficial nesta sesión., non-residents Same continental licence requirement. In the stretches of the Eo and Navia shared with Asturias, Mondays AND Thursdays are closed days except national holidays, and the Eo carries its own minimum sizes (25 cm trout, 25 cm sea trout) and quotas.
  • saltwater-recreational — residents Licencia de pesca marítima de recreo expedida por la comunidad autónoma del litoral (o Ceuta/Melilla). DOS OBLIGACIONES ESTATALES SUCESIVAS EN 2026, y la segunda es la que se pasa por alto: (1) desde el 10 de enero de 2026, en aplicación del Reglamento (UE) 2023/2842, hay que estar REGISTRADO y notificar las capturas por vía electrónica; (2) desde el 20 de marzo de 2026, el Real Decreto 214/2026, de 18 de marzo, obliga a COMUNICAR DIARIAMENTE todas las capturas a través de la aplicación PescaREC del MAPA. La declaración debe hacerse dentro de las 24 horas siguientes a la finalización de la actividad, y si en un mismo día se realizan varias actividades de pesca no continuadas hay que declarar cada una POR SEPARADO. La obligación cubre las capturas retenidas, las capturadas y liberadas y también la jornada sin capturas. Son de declaración obligatoria las especies del Anexo II del Real Decreto 347/2011 y las que añade el Real Decreto 214/2026; el resto es declaración voluntaria. Para las especies del Anexo II (protección diferenciada, p. ej. atún rojo) hace falta además una autorización específica del Estado. Andalucía exige adicionalmente declarar sus especies objetivo antes del final del día natural, un plazo más corto que el estatal., non-residents Non-residents need the same regional recreational licence, the same registration from 10 January 2026 and the same DAILY PescaREC declaration from 20 March 2026 — within 24 hours of the end of each session, separately for each non-continuous session, and including released fish and blank sessions. Anexo II species additionally require a state authorisation issued to the vessel owner. Note that a licence issued by one autonomous community is not necessarily valid in another: since Ley 5/2023 recognition follows the fishing ground (calador), so an Atlantic licence does not cover the Mediterranean coast and vice versa, and Catalonia does not recognise EU-issued licences at all.

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Frequently asked questions

What fish can you catch at A Coruna Galicia?

Anglers at A Coruna Galicia target Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Atlantic Mackerel, Pollock and European Seabass.

When is the best time to fish A Coruna Galicia?

The most productive months at A Coruna Galicia are typically June, July, August, September, October.

What is the fishing forecast for A Coruna Galicia right now?

A Coruna Galicia currently scores 61 out of 100, based on live ocean and weather conditions — see the full breakdown on this page.

Can you fish A Coruna Galicia from shore?

Yes — A Coruna Galicia is fishable from shore (offshore-only).

Is the thermocline set up at A Coruna Galicia right now?

Not strongly right now — the water column is fairly mixed, so fish are less depth-locked.

Is there a combined bag limit at A Coruna Galicia?

Yes — on top of per-species rules, the local regulation caps your total take: maximum 5 kg total per day. Check the official source before keeping fish.

Fishing guides for this spot

Forecasts, not guarantees — check local rules before you fish.