If you decide to fish in Tenerife from the shore, there is a vast variety of fish that you can catch, either by using bait or lures. Large fish can be caught from the beach and rock marks, but in general, it will be the smaller species that you encounter. We will now take a look at the more common species of Tenerife fish that you are likely to catch when fishing from the shore.
Catching Fish from the Shore – “Can I eat it?”
Some small species, yes, but we are talking about those that do not exceed 3 or 4 kilos in weight.
Recreational fishing is a regulated activity and can be of various types:
- Shore-based: fishing on foot from the shore.
- From a boat: from boats suitable for this activity and registered in the Official Register of Vessels.
- Spearfishing: is practised by free diving, without using any type of element that allows breathing during immersion, or mechanical means of propulsion.
A fishing licence is compulsory for recreational fishing.
- First Class Licence: is required for fishing from a boat with a handline, rod, trolling line, surface trolling line, volantino and jig.
- Second Class Licence: required for spearfishing with hand or mechanically propelled means (spearguns) and shellfishing on foot.
- Third Class Licence: required for surface, shore and boat fishing and shell-fishing on foot.
What fish are in local Tenerife?
The waters just off Tenerife’s coasts are deep and have the influence of the Gulf Currents, making them the ideal habitat for parrot fish, sardines, samas, wreckfish, pollocks, grouper fish, combers, horse-mackerel, cuttle fish and mackerel, to name just a few.
Flatfish in Tenerife
Flatfish can camouflage themselves by imitating the color of the sea floor. They become sand-colored on sandy bottoms and patchy stone-colored on pebbly bottoms. You can hardly see them anymore. Flatfish begin their lives as normal swimming fish but get a flattened body within a couple of weeks. They are totally adapted to living on the sea floor. Even their eyes move to one side of their head. If you were to weigh all the fish in the North Sea, one third of the total would be flatfish.
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