Sport Fishing

Empowering patience in Tierra del Fuego

The fishing season extends -in general- from November to May. However, in some areas it may start a few months later or be finished some time earlier.

The island of Tierra del Fuego presents a great variety of environments to practice sport fishing and enjoy the peace of nature.

The fishing modalities allowed are: fly fishing or spin fishing, with the use of corresponding equipment for each case.

The trawling method from a propelled boat is prohibited, as well as the use of artificial lures that contain batteries or batteries, due to their possible polluting power.

You can download the app "Sport Fishing – TDF" to manage your fishing permit and get more information

Available for iOS and Android.

Places available for fishing according to the season and other indications

• Rio Grande and its tributaries: enabled until April 17, 2022.
• Palacios River, Milna River, Tuerto River, Turbio River and Subiabre Stream: fishing is allowed as from January 1, 2022.
• South Ewan River: In the section between the bridge "Justicia" of National Route No. 3 and the mouth of the river, starting on January 1, 2022.
• North Ewan River, Fuego River, Videla Creek (Fuego River basin), San Pablo River, Yakush Lake and Indio River: only fly fishing is authorized.
• Claro River: all types of motorized navigation are prohibited.
• Laguna Hantuk (or Sutherland), Laguna Palacios: only navigation with internal combustion engines is allowed in the northwest sector of the lagoon, between Lake Fagnano and the Ushuaia Hunting and Fishing Association dock. Motorized navigation is prohibited in the rest of the lagoon.
• Laguna Negra: fishing is only authorized with compulsory return in the Laguna Negra Multipurpose Provincial Reserve of the Fagnano lake basin. Motorized navigation is prohibited.
• Irigoyen River: in the section bordering the Estancia María Luisa only fly fishing is allowed, and spoon fishing is authorized in the rest of the river.
• Malenguena River: "Fly" fishing is allowed, but "Spoon" fishing is authorized in a stretch of two hundred (200) meters before its mouth into the Atlantic Ocean.
• Bombilla Lagoon: only navigation with an internal combustion engine is allowed in the west sector of the lagoon only for the purpose of accessing or returning from Lake Fagnano. Likewise, fishing from boats with internal combustion engines is prohibited in the entire lagoon.
• Margarita Lagoon, Varela Lagoon, Tres Marías Lagoon and Chepelmut Lake: navigation with internal combustion engines is prohibited.

Fishing with compulsory return is allowed in all the environments of the Natural Protected Areas of the Province, except for express disposition of the enforcement authority, such as festivals, tournaments, etc.

Didymo algae

Didymo algae or moco de roca is an exotic organism that has entered Patagonia and, under certain circumstances, forms layers up to 25 cm thick that cover stream beds and pose a serious risk to freshwater ecosystems. This algae can remain viable out of water, in cool, humid and dark places for more than 40 days. For this reason, equipment related to aquatic activities such as fishing, among others, become vectors of propagation and can transfer the algae to other sites.

In order to prevent the spread of Didymo, in Tierra del Fuego it was decided that those entering the province should carefully wash and disinfect their fishing equipment (waders, wading boots, individual floats, boats, etc.), exposing them for at least one minute in the following solutions:

2% bleach

5% salt (500 g of common salt in 10 liters of water).

National Park

This year you can also fish in the National Park - in the Ovando and Lapataia rivers - but you will have to buy a different permit at the National Parks office, which is paid in cash.

Permits can be purchased at: