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2 AnswersGetting Started
Browse the public Live Map, then sign in for member tools, saved activity, and sharing.
Is SurfFishing.app free?
Yes. SurfFishing.app is available without a subscription or paywall. A free member account is required for Catch Feed, Bite Forecast, Regulations Search, Fish Identifier, profiles, and community tools.
What do I need an account for?
You can browse public posts on the Live Map without an account. A free account unlocks member planning, saved activity, profiles, and support; email verification is required before publishing pins, photos, comments, reactions, or reports.
Sharing
3 AnswersMap & Community
Choose what you share and keep exact fishing locations under your control.
Can I keep an exact fishing location private?
Yes. Choose Only me for a private pin. Approximate uses a database-generated area roughly one mile across while keeping the exact saved point owner-only. Public shares the selected coordinate.
What can I pin on the Live Map?
Signed-in members can publish catches, fishing spots, fishing reports, and hazards. Public and approximate posts can appear on the map, while only photo-backed catches can also appear in Catch Feed; private posts stay visible only to their owner.
How are private photos protected?
Private-post photos use a separate owner-only bucket and short-lived signed delivery links. Every uploaded photo is decoded and re-encoded by the server before storage so embedded GPS and other metadata are removed.
Conditions
3 AnswersPlanning Tools
Forecasts, regulations, and fish matches are trip-planning aids—not guarantees.
Where do forecasts come from?
Forecasts use weather and marine model data from Open-Meteo and tide predictions from the nearest available NOAA Tides & Currents station.
Are regulation results legally authoritative?
No. Regulations Search links to official state resources. Verify seasons, proclamations, boundaries, gear rules, and size or bag limits before fishing.
Can Fish Identifier guarantee a species?
No. Photo recognition returns likely matches when the recognition service is available. When it is offline, the page disables photo and location controls and does not upload or stage an image. Release fish you cannot identify confidently and verify with an official field guide or local agency.
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SurfFishing.app processes the account, profile, location, post, media, support, and technical information needed to operate the service. We do not sell personal account information.
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Location and community content
Map posts keep an owner-only exact point. Trusted database logic derives a separate display point for Approximate posts in an area roughly one mile across; public app responses never expose their exact point. Public and approximate posts, comments, likes, usernames, and sanitized public media can be visible to other visitors.
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Map tiles and place searches may send the requested map area, query, or coordinate to Mapbox. Forecast and tide requests may send a coordinate to Open-Meteo and NOAA. Those providers apply their own privacy practices.
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Photos and avatars are decoded and re-encoded on the server before storage, stripping EXIF, GPS, device, timestamp, thumbnail, and editing metadata. Public and approximate media uses public delivery; private media uses a separate owner-only bucket and short-lived signed URLs.
Fish Identifier
When automatic recognition is configured and you choose Identify Fish, the photo is privately staged, decoded, and re-encoded; the raw temporary object is deleted before the sanitized copy is sent to Fishial Recognition. SurfFishing.app does not retain the photo, optional location is not sent to Fishial, and the provider does not publish an API-specific deletion period or blanket no-training commitment. If provider credentials are unavailable, the request stops before the image is staged or sent.
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Edit profile and visibility settings or delete your account after re-authentication. Removed posts and comments normally stay hidden for a 30-day appeal window before scheduled hard deletion. Use the public Support form for privacy, account-access, abuse, copyright, safety, appeals, or content concerns without signing in.
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