Can you spearfish in Miramare MPA?

No. It is no-take and must be avoided.

No. It is shallow urban rock and artificial breakwater water.

Do you need a license?

No paid license, but MASAF declaration is mandatory.

About 5 kg per person, or one heavier fish.

Trieste spearfishing forecast — Italy

Trieste · Italy

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Sources: MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 03:49

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Sources: MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2
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Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.

Swell & wave memory: Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
Wind & gusts: Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
Tide phase: Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
Water temperature: Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
Currents & outflow: Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
Rain runoff & air clarity: Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
Coast shape & exposure: How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.

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Barcola scoglieraTrieste

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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)

window: With ten metres of water 1200 m from the shore, the band where you meet the local orders is all of it right here. Between the shore and five metres of water there are 720 m: that is the stretch you want to cover in good light. The last stretch, the 1200 m out to ten metres of water, is the one you will swim tired: put it in the day's arithmetic. Arrive with time to look the place over before getting in.
tide: If anything changes the level at Trieste, it is pressure and wind, not the moon. In the bora the level drops and in the sirocco it rises: the wind surge adds itself to the astronomical range. With the shore 100 m from the mark, the alongshore current counts for more than any table. The way back, 720 m to the five-metre band, is decided beforehand and not on the way.
shelter: Gusts from the northeast ruffle the surface but raise no swell: it is the fetch towards the southwest that counts. In Libeccio the detached rocks break the swell but hand it back confused, and that crossed sea tires you more than a clean wave. With wind from the southwest building, the window shuts fast: plan the way back with margin. Dead swell from the southwest arrives under a clear sky and no wind at all.
conditions: On ground this flat the wind does more damage than the swell, because it stirs the whole layer. With 20 m reached about 2400 m out, the limit of the day is set by your breath and not by the distance. Past 1200 m from the shore it is the water that decides the day and not the willingness. The best water nearly always arrives from offshore on a light Grecale.
hazard: The danger of an isolated rock is the distance from land, not the depth. At Trieste, as along the whole Italian coast, the surface marker and the 50 m radius are not negotiable. Keep in mind the 100 m that separate you from the coast when you decide on the last descent. With 720 m out to five metres, the exit is short only if you decide on it in time.
access: In Libeccio the crossing out to the shoal is worth thinking about twice, because on the way back you will have it against you. The mark is 100 m from the coastline and ten metres of water runs 1200 m out. Count the 720 m that separate you from the five-metre contour: they are the measure of the way back. If you do not fancy swimming the 1200 m back from ten metres of water, do not go any further out.

Urban rocky strip south of Miramare; mixed sand and rock, modest but real.

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Costiera tra Grignano e Santa CroceTrieste

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Filtri di BarcolaTrieste

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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)

window: The timing here is set by law rather than by convenience: sunrise to sunset and nothing else. The 500 m from used beaches is measured from the water's edge, and here the shore is 10 m from the mark: in bathing season do the arithmetic before getting in. At Trieste in summer the bathing strip changes the usable distances completely. In doubt, ask the local Capitaneria beforehand and not afterwards.
tide: In the northern Adriatic the tidal wave amplifies: what is noise elsewhere is a good half metre at Trieste. Between the shore and five metres of water there are 590 m, and no tide shifts that line appreciably. Do not wait for the right tide: wait for the right sea. A surge pushed by Libeccio can raise the level more than the tide itself.
shelter: The coast here runs SE–NW and opens to the southwest: that is what decides which forecast to read. The channel between the rock and the coast is the part that settles first and the part that turns awkward last. At Trieste whoever gets in first checks, whoever gets in out of habit is trusting yesterday. When the swell gets in, the whole coastal strip, 590 m wide here, lifts and the clarity goes.
conditions: A slope this gentle, twenty metres at 2300 m, holds sand in suspension long after the swell. The 10 m contour runs about 710 m from the shore and is the practical reference for this entry. At Trieste the good days are few and have to be taken when they come. If the clarity drops under two metres, change area instead of insisting.
hazard: In Libeccio the passage between the shoal and the coast becomes the most dangerous part of the route. Under sixteen you do not handle a speargun: the rule is national. At Trieste floating lines are seen late: keep an eye above you as well. Mind the proximity of the Miramare AMP, 2.4 km: inside the zoning the rules change completely.
access: For a shoal or a detached rock the access is a swim, and the distance is counted on the way out. The distance from the shore, 10 m, is minimal: the limit is set by the sea and not by the route. Better a hundred metres more on foot than the wrong entry. At Trieste the accesses change with the bathing season.

Man-made breakwater along Barcola; sea bream and sea bass, shallow and busy, watch the Bora.

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MuggiaTrieste

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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)

window: Spearfishing on breath-hold is allowed by day; at night it is banned under DPR 1639/1968. In doubt, the order in force at Trieste is asked of the Capitaneria and not of the neighbour in the car park. With the 180 m that separate you from five metres of water, the return in daylight is planned from the start. A trip done properly starts with checking the day's rules.
tide: The right question on this coast is not what the tide is doing but what swell has been through. Here the tide really does show: up to eight decimetres between high and low, and the shore changes face between the two. At Trieste the level changes little, but the current towards the north can be noticeable in the channels. If the current takes you past the 390 m of the ten-metre line, head straight back for land.
shelter: With an exposure of 10° the awkward sector runs from northwest to northeast, and outside it the day is usually saved. An open coastal front has no shelter of its own: the shelter comes from the orientation and from nothing else. With Tramontana building, shorten the session instead of lengthening the route. At Trieste the swell forecast matters more than the wind forecast on this stretch.
conditions: With twenty metres at 2500 m the day is played in shallow water and you accept staying low. The first stretch is nearly always the worst: you cross it and judge afterwards. With Tramontana strengthening, the good window closes without warning. By 390 m from the shore you already know whether it is worth going on.
hazard: The marker has to follow you even when you are working 390 m from the shore: 50 m from the vertical below it is the legal maximum. On a straight coast the alongshore current moves you without your noticing. At Trieste the real risk is not the depth: it is the combination of tiredness and swell. A knife you can reach with one hand is worth more than two in the bag.
access: Under the shore the bottom is what you see from above, 40 m from the coastline. From the shore you get in where the rock slopes down, not where the road comes closest. With Tramontana strengthening the exit is brought forward, not discussed. At Trieste many accesses cross private property: if it is signed, look for another one.

Sheltered rock and sand SE of the city; the Miramare MPA is no-take, route around it.

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Punta BovedoTrieste

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Punta RoncoTrieste

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Punta Sottile di MuggiaTrieste

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Santa CroceTrieste

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in the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)

window: National law sets the perimeter; the local Capitaneria orders can tighten it. At Trieste the bathing season changes the usable distances far more than the sea ever does. A shore oriented at 226° loses the sun before sunset: take it into account for the last descent. Keeping to the hours is also the simplest way of having no trouble.
tide: The Gulf of Trieste is the Italian exception: the range reaches about 0.8 m at springs and stays around 0.3 m at neaps. The level barely moves: the 10 m contour stays 400 m from the shore at any hour of the day. With current and poor clarity together, better to postpone. The inshore current is read off your float, not off the table.
shelter: In front of a cave or an arch the water breathes with the sea: with leftover swell the entrance pushes and sucks. The opening to the southwest is wide: no nearby storm is needed here, an old sea from that sector is enough. If you get in as Libeccio is easing, remember the sea stays up a day longer than the wind. At Trieste the old rule holds: watch the sea for ten minutes, then decide.
conditions: The distance to twenty metres, 4500 m, makes chasing depth pointless: work the structures close in instead. If you cannot see the bottom 330 m out, the day is over before it starts. Do not judge the day by the first five minutes: judge it by the first clean stretch. After three calm days the water at Trieste is a different water.
hazard: On the shoreline at Trieste the same national rules apply without discounts: breath-hold, daylight, marker in sight. Under a wall there is no sideways escape: if the swell builds you come out where you went in or nowhere. The perimeter of the Miramare AMP runs 2.1 km away, and the official chart is the only valid reference. With Libeccio building, the window shuts sooner than the forecast says.
access: The entry at the foot of the wall is judged with your head and with the sea of the moment. From here to the 5 m contour is about 330 m, and it pays to measure them on the way out so as not to find them long on the way back. At Trieste the return is planned on the afternoon swell, not on the morning one. The last stretch back to land, 10 m, is always done with less breath than you expected.

Cliffs and boulders below Santa Croce; sea bream and bogue, rock entry, exposed to north winds.

SOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.

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European seabass
<4 m · — · dawn/dusk
min. 25 cm · legal target
Gilthead seabream
1–4 m · over sand/weed · dawn
min. 20 cm · legal target
White seabream
1–5 m · in the surf on the reef · dawn
min. 23 cm · legal target
Two-banded seabream
1–8 m · — · dawn
min. 18 cm · legal target
Sharpsnout seabream
2–10 m · — · dawn
min. 18 cm · legal target
Annular seabream
0–5 m · — · daytime
min. 12 cm · legal target
Common dentex
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 30 cm · legal target
Red porgy
min. 18 cm · legal target
Common pandora
min. 18 cm · Sardinia 20 cm · legal target
Axillary seabream
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 18 cm · legal target
Blackspot seabream
min. 33 cm · legal target
Striped seabream
0–5 m · — · dawn
min. 20 cm · legal target
Black seabream
2–6 m · — · —
min. 15 cm · legal target
Bogue
min. 15 cm · legal target
Salema
0–2 m · — · daytime
min. 15 cm · legal target
Dusky grouper
5–40 m · — · daytime
min. 45 cm · RESTRICTED · max 1 grouper/day; BANNED in Sardegna & MPAs
Wreckfish
min. 45 cm · RESTRICTED · max 1 grouper/day; BANNED in Sardegna & MPAs
Brown meagre
2–15 m · — · twilight
min. 20 cm · RESTRICTED · protected in several MPAs · (verify against the norm in force)
Greater amberjack
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target · (verify against the norm in force)
Leerfish
min. 15 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target
Grey mullet
0–2 m · — · —
min. 20 cm · Sardinia 25 cm · legal target
Red scorpionfish
3–20 m · — · daytime
min. 15 cm · legal target
Moray eel
1–15 m · — · twilight
min. 25 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target
European conger
2–25 m · — · night
min. 25 cm · Sardinia 50 cm · legal target
Wrasse
min. 15 cm · legal target
Red mullet
min. 11 cm · legal target
Atlantic bonito
min. 25 cm · legal target
Common octopus
1–6 m · — · twilight
min. 450 g · legal target
Cuttlefish
legal target · (verify against the norm in force)

Law

✓NO paid licence, but a free MASAF REGISTRATION is mandatory (recreational sea-fishing declaration, online via SIAN/SPID, annual) — it is not a «licence».
✓Free-diving only: scuba/rebreather/hookah BANNED (art. 128-bis DPR 1639/68). The 16+ rule comes from a different act — D.Lgs 4/2012, art. 6 c. 5; handing a speargun to an under-16 is an offence (art. 13-octies c. 3 b, as replaced by L. 75/2026).
✓Night prohibited: spearfishing only from dawn to sunset (art. 129e DPR 1639/68).
✓Distances (art. 129 DPR 1639/68): ≥500 m from beaches with bathers; ≥100 m from fixed gear/set nets and from vessels anchored outside ports.
✓Buoy MANDATORY (art. 130 DPR 1639/68): float with a red flag bearing a white diagonal stripe, visible ≥300 m; the diver stays within 50 m of the buoy/support boat.
✓The speargun may not be kept armed out of the water (art. 131 DPR 1639/68) — load only when submerged.
✓The spearfisher may NOT gather corals, crustaceans or molluscs — the second paragraph of the same article (art. 128-bis DPR 1639/68; the same rule in D.M. 249/1987, art. 2). BUT cephalopods are EXCLUDED: octopus, cuttlefish and squid may be taken — the exception is kept in terms by the official guidance (circolare 6227201 of 23.07.1987). Mussels — up to 3 kg per person per day, but only with the Capo del Compartimento Marittimo's authorisation. The 5 kg daily cap counts EVERYTHING taken that day (D.Lgs 4/2012, art. 13-octies c. 4, as replaced by L. 75/2026).
✓You MAY carry a speargun and a breathing apparatus on the same boat — but at most ONE cylinder of up to 10 L per vessel, and using it to fish is prohibited (art. 128-ter DPR 1639/68). While you are down, at least one person must stay aboard ready to intervene, and there must be a rope long enough to recover the diver.
✓Sale of recreational catch is PROHIBITED (EU control regime, Reg. CE 1224/2009).
✓The 5 kg/person daily cap IS in force and carries a fine: €500–3 000 up to 10 kg, €2 000–12 000 up to 50 kg, €12 000–50 000 above (D.Lgs 4/2012, art. 13-octies c. 4, as replaced by Law 21 Apr 2026 no. 75). Exception: a single fish heavier than 5 kg. Recovery-plan species and bluefin tuna: +1/3 (c. 5).

⛔ Date mussels (Lithophaga lithophaga) — TOTAL BAN: fishing, possession, transport, sale (D.M. 16/10/1998; EU-protected). Never touch.

Safety protocol

Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.

Spearfishing in Trieste: spots, seasons and rules

Updated 2026-07-09 · By Oleksandr, spearfisher

Spearfishing in Trieste is about urban margins. Barcola and Filtri di Barcola are shallow city rock or artificial breakwater, with seabream and seabass but also traffic and Bora. Muggia is more sheltered south-east of town on rock and sand, yet Miramare MPA is no-take and must be avoided. Santa Croce adds cliffs and boulders below the village, exposed to north winds. Respecting space matters as much as fish.

Where can you spearfish in Trieste?

These are urban or near-urban shore references. Shallow water does not remove traffic, Bora, rocks, or Miramare boundaries.

Spot	Type	Depth	Level	Access	Notes
Barcola scogliera	Urban rocky strip	Shallow mixed bottom	Cautious intermediate	Shore along Barcola	South of Miramare; modest but real. Do not drift into the MPA.
Muggia	Sheltered rock and sand	Shallow sheltered bottom	Accessible with clear rules	Shore south-east of town	More sheltered, but Miramare MPA is no-take.
Filtri di Barcola	Artificial breakwater	Shallow water	Cautious intermediate	Shore along breakwater	Seabream and seabass, shallow and busy, watch Bora.
Santa Croce	Cliffs and boulders	Rock below cliffs	Intermediate	Rock entry below Santa Croce	Seabream and bogue; exposed to north winds.

When are conditions best in Trieste?

Check both west-sector sea and Bora. The bad sector is 205-295, worst near 225, but local cues also call out Bora and north winds. Italian law still applies: free MASAF declaration, apnea only from age 16, no night spearfishing, visible buoy within 50 m, 500 m from bathers, 100 m from nets or anchored vessels, no sale, and about 5 kg daily catch.

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