GALÁPAGOS FISHING MAP
Fishing Hot Spots
The Galápagos Islands, 600 miles off Ecuador: Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristóbal, Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz and Puerto Villamil on Isabela. The whole archipelago is a marine reserve, so this map is about where and how visitors can fish legally. Tap any star or dot to see what it is.
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Fishing & access
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Parks & rules
Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.
Lake guides for this map
Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:
Fishing Hot Spots by area
The three towns where licensed fishing trips start. Tap one to fly to it on the map.
Fishing in a marine reserve
The Galápagos Islands are one of the most protected places in the ocean. The whole archipelago is inside the Galápagos Marine Reserve, and the newer Hermandad Marine Reserve stretches toward Costa Rica's Isla del Coco.
Visitors can still fish, but only on licensed "pesca vivencial" (experiential fishing) trips run by Galápagos fishermen, in the zones and seasons the national park allows. Trips target yellowfin tuna, wahoo, dorado and the local grouper called bacalao, and sport fishing for marlin out of San Cristóbal is catch-and-release.
Rules: never fish on your own, from the shore or from a tour boat that isn't licensed for fishing, and never take sea cucumbers, lobsters or sharks.
BigJoe’s gear for Galápagos Islands
What BigJoe would bring to fish these waters.
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