Padstow Harbour Commissioners is the trust port authority responsible for managing the Port of Padstow and serving as the Competent Harbour Authority for the River Camel estuarine waters. The harbour office is located on West Quay in Padstow, Cornwall.

Padstow itself is a small commercial fishing and leisure port situated about 1. 5 miles from the sea within the Camel estuary.

The inner harbour features a lock gate operating two hours either side of high water, providing afloat moorings for vessels up to three metres draft.

The estuary holds approximately 200 swinging moorings, and the port handles occasional aggregate cargoes alongside an active fishing fleet with regular landings of fish, crab, and lobster.

A growing shellfish farming industry within the estuary produces mussels, cockles, oysters, and scallops.