Year after year, salmon fishing remains one of the hallmarks of our region and a driver of the local economy. As soon as the season opens, anglers return to the Asturian rivers drawn by the richness of their waters, though recent seasons have left a lingering concern about how the species is faring.
Asturias spreads its salmon beats across five major river basins, from the Eo to the Cares-Deva. The River Eo, shared with Galicia, is traditionally one of the earliest for salmon to enter, with several stretches running through the municipality of San Tirso de Abres.
It’s worth remembering that many of these stretches operate as catch-and-release zones: any fish caught must be returned to the river alive, a measure designed to protect an increasingly fragile species.
Asturias campanu 2026
This year’s campanu kept everyone waiting like never before. The first salmon didn’t appear until 26 May, more than a month after the season opened, making it the latest campanu on record.
It came from the River Sella, a specimen weighing 6.2 kilos and measuring 82 centimetres that took an artificial fly at around 9:30 in the morning, by the old bridge in Villanueva (Cangas de Onís). The lucky angler was Iván Alonso Peñayos, from Gamonéu, who had already landed the first salmon of the Piloña the previous year.
The fish was auctioned a few days later for 9,400 euros and travelled to Gijón with the El Campanu group.
The River Eo in 2026
On the Eo, the season had a particular twist. Galicia decided to fully close salmon fishing on all its rivers this year, as a protective measure against the decline of the species, while Asturias kept fishing open with very reduced quotas on its side.
The result is that, this time, the Eo produced no salmon at all: not a single catch was recorded along its stretches throughout the whole campaign. This fits into a record-low season across Asturias as a whole, which closed with little more than a hundred tagged salmon.
We’ll have to wait for coming seasons to see how the situation on our river develops.
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