The Azores archipelago is made up of nine isolated volcanic islands located at an intersection of three tectonic plates: the North American plate, the Eurasian plate and the African plate, presenting a great diversity of marine organisms.
Thus, the Azores archipelago is located at the crossroads of several important ocean currents, which allowed these islands to become the refuge of surprising biodiversity. The islands’ volcanic underwater activity has created a unique underwater topography that serves as a resource for a variety of oceanic, tropical and endemic species.
Fishing on the island of São Miguel is characterized by different types of habitats, from coastal areas to the sloping flanks of the islands, seamounts, oceanic ridges, hydrothermal fields, coral aggregations, cold water sponges and submarine canyons. This diversity of ecosystems and habitats contributes to the great biodiversity of species that characterizes our region.
Seamounts serve as aggregation points for open ocean migrants such as tuna, sharks, cetaceans linking the deep sea to the sea surface. In this part of the Atlantic and being a crossing point for golf currents, there are many mackerel, mackerel, squid, blue marlin and white marlin, as well as Indian mackerel, dorado, whitetail, among other species of tuna and sharks, being a destination of choice for lovers of Big Game Fishing.