Vigo Rias Baixas fishing forecast

Ranks #290 of 437 spots FishRadar scored worldwide today

Trending down — 19 points below 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: 2026-09-01, 96/100

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

33 points below the same day last week

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.

Galicia has TWO rulebooks. Sea fishing inside the rías and along the coast follows Decreto 211/1999 and the Xunta minimum-size order of 27 July 2012; rivers, reservoirs and estuary mouths follow Ley 2/2021 and an ANNUAL order that is remade every December — the 2026 one closes salmon in the whole of Galicia. The recreational sea licence covers only cephalopods and fish, and not eel: shellfish require a separate marisqueo licence. The binding limit at sea is a weight, 5 kg per licence per day, not a per-species count, with a two-piece cap on octopus and a separate 25 kg allowance for large pelagics. Bluefin tuna and swordfish may not be retained anywhere in Spain even though the Xunta lists them as capturable species. Where the Galician figure and the EU figure differ, FishRadar publishes the stricter one. Always verify with the Xunta de Galicia before you fish.