Tarragona Coast fishing forecast

Ranks #392 of 437 spots FishRadar scored worldwide today

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.

30 days tracked at this exact location

Best recent day: 2026-08-31, 60/100

4 points below the same day last week

All species combined

• maximum 5 kg total per day — CATALONIA RUNS ITS RIVERS AS A CLOSED WHITELIST PLUS A NO-KILL DEFAULT. Only the fourteen species of apartat 2.2 may be fished at all — brown trout, chub, Ebro barbel, seabass, four mullets of the genus Chelon, flathead mullet, flounder, gilthead seabream, pompano, leerfish and bluefish — and everything except brown trout and the euryhaline group must be released immediately at the point of capture. The euryhaline group may be killed ONLY in the first stretch of the free no-kill zone ZLLSM EB-01, from the C-42 road bridge at Tortosa (UTM 31N/ETRS89 X 290,190, Y 4,519,953) to the river mouth, and there the whole group shares a cap of 5 kg per angler per day COUNTED ACROSS MARINE AND CONTINENTAL WATERS TOGETHER, with one oversize piece excludable, plus per-species limits: bass 40 cm and three a day closed 15 January – 15 February, mullets 35 cm, gilthead 30 cm and seven a day, pompano four a day, leerfish 80 cm and one a day closed 1 April – 30 June, bluefish 40 cm and two a day. An angler must LEAVE the fishing zone once the maximum permitted catch is reached. HOURS: one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset, except the Riba-roja and Flix controlled zone EB-01 which is open 00:00–24:00 and authorised night competitions. BAIT: live or dead fish, crustaceans and molluscs of any species, their parts and derivatives, and non-local insects are prohibited as bait in every Catalan water; apple-snail eggs, juveniles and adults are prohibited; in salmonid waters wax worms, maggots and pastes are also prohibited. GROUND-BAITING is prohibited in general and allowed only to federated anglers in authorised competitions and the twenty days of training before them, capped at 2 kg dry weight or 5 litres per angler per day. INVASIVE SPECIES — READ THIS BEFORE YOU RELEASE ANYTHING: pike (Esox lucius), perch (Perca fluviatilis), roach (Rutilus rutilus), rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), black bullhead (Ameiurus melas), common bream (Abramis brama), silver bream (Blicca bjoerkna), tench (Tinca tinca), goldfish and Prussian carp (Carassius auratus, C. gibelio) and grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) MAY NOT BE FISHED INTENTIONALLY ANYWHERE IN CATALONIA — and a specimen caught by accident MUST NOT BE PUT BACK. Every specimen must be killed at the moment of capture whatever its length, may not be held alive in a keepnet and may not be returned to the water; possession and transport of dead specimens is authorised for composting, own consumption, residual-waste containers or an authorised animal-tissue waste manager at the angler's expense. FishRadar deliberately publishes NO per-species row for those twelve: the app's "fully protected — release immediately" wording is the opposite of the law here, so the duty is stated once, in full, in this paragraph instead. Blue crab, signal crayfish, spiny-cheek crayfish and red swamp crayfish may not be fished recreationally at all. PROTECTED SPECIES may not be fished, captured or exploited; a European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) from the lower-Ebro reintroduction project must be photographed, its date, place and tag code recorded, returned to the water at the point of capture and reported to 112 and to [email protected].

Licensing:

• saltwater-recreational — residents Llicència de pesca recreativa de superfície, subaquàtica o col·lectiva, expedida pel Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca i Alimentació. La de superfície s'expedeix per 1 dia, 2 dies seguits, 15 dies seguits o 1, 2, 3 o 4 anys; la subaquàtica té vigència d'un any i exigeix certificat mèdic oficial emès com a màxim tres mesos abans, amb vigència d'un any, i llicència federativa per a l'adquisició i tinença de fusells d'impulsió mecànica; la col·lectiva, per a embarcació, pot ser d'1 a 4 anys. Totes són personals i intransferibles i cal portar-les i exhibir-les. GRATUÏTES per a menors de 18 anys, majors de 65 anys i persones amb discapacitat reconeguda igual o superior al 33 % o pensionistes per incapacitat permanent. No hi ha edat mínima per a la pesca submarina: l'aptitud la valora el metge., non-residents CATALONIA IS THE STRICTEST OF THE THREE COMUNIDADES ON LICENCE RECOGNITION, and it is the rule most likely to catch a touring angler. Under Ley 5/2023 recreational licences are only valid within the SAME FISHING GROUND (calador). Licences from the Balearic Islands, the Comunitat Valenciana, Murcia and the Mediterranean coast of Andalusia ARE valid in Catalonia. Licences from Cantabrian or Atlantic comunidades — Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, the Atlantic side of Andalusia — are NOT. Licences issued by other EU Member States are NOT valid in Catalonia at all. Conversely a Catalan licence is valid in the interior and exterior waters of the Mediterranean ground but not on the Atlantic coast. Compare Galicia, which recognises State, EU and all other autonomous-community licences without restriction.
• freshwater-recreational — residents Llicència de pesca recreativa en aigües continentals més, quan escaigui, el permís de la zona: a les zones de pesca controlada de salmònids i a les intensives el permís és exclusivament diari; a les ZPC de ciprínids pot ser diari o anual; a la ZPC de l'embassament de Riba-roja i Flix (EB-01) pot ser diari, setmanal o anual, i l'anual és exclusiu per a socis i socis riberencs. Les sol·licituds de permís s'han de presentar amb una antelació mínima de set dies., non-residents Same requirement. The permit for the Riba-roja and Flix (EB-01), Canelles (NR-09) and Santa Anna (NR-10) controlled zones authorises fishing ONLY in Catalan waters — a permit issued by Aragón does not extend into Catalonia and vice versa, which matters on reservoirs that straddle the border.
• 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.

Catalonia publishes THREE different recreational fishing tables, one for the Girona coast, one for Barcelona and one for Tarragona, and they do not always agree — gilthead seabream is 5 a day in Girona and Barcelona but 7 in Tarragona, comber is 18 cm in Girona and 14 cm elsewhere, and the octopus closure differs by two months between provinces. Where they differ FishRadar shows the strictest figure and states the others in the notes. On top of them, the natural parks of Cap de Creus and Montgrí–Illes Medes and the Ses Negres and Masia Blanca marine reserves have their own stricter rules. No shark, ray or skate may be targeted or held aboard anywhere on the Catalan coast; live bait is banned; no crustaceans or bivalves may be taken with a recreational licence; and since 20 March 2026 every sea catch must be declared daily through the PescaREC app. In fresh water only fourteen species may be fished, most of them catch-and-release only, and pike, perch, roach, rudd, bream, tench and pumpkinseed may not be fished at all; wels catfish and zander may only be fished in named upper-Ebro stretches and never released. A Catalan licence is valid only in the Mediterranean fishing ground, and licences from Atlantic comunidades or from other EU countries are not valid here. Always verify with the Generalitat de Catalunya before you fish.