The Lanzarote Health Area advises against bathing in the waters next to the La Pescadería pier, in Arrecife. This enclave is used in isolation by some bathers in times of high temperatures to take a dip. The name of La Pescadería is linked to the maritime history of Arrecife as this area was the city limit until the first decades of the last century XX, with a small pier next to the old building that currently houses the representation of the Government of Spain in the capital.
The Department of Environment and Beaches of the Arrecife City Council has received this afternoon the communication from the Canary Islands Health Service, through the Directorate of the Lanzarote Health Area, where it is reported that "within the preventive and random controls in the waters of the coast, bathing is not recommended in this dock" which has its origin for the disembarkation of fish catches for commercialization in the old Arrecife fish market.
The Councilor for the Environment and Beaches, Davinia Déniz, after learning of the request from the Health Department, has proceeded to place an informative sign prohibiting bathing. Likewise, for preventive safety, buoys have been installed in the area of the small pier to prevent access. The sign informs of the prohibition in several languages.
The Lanzarote Health Area will inform the Arrecife City Council of the new results of its analyses to proceed with lifting the prohibition, or maintaining it, as a preventive measure.
The City Council points out that "one of the possible causes of these data in the water analyses could be linked to the high tides that are being recorded these days in the Canary Islands. The entire area of the Arrecife seafront is land reclaimed from the sea, where there were old buildings that lacked, until the 1960s of the last century, a sanitation network. The high tides and low tides can penetrate, through the subsoil, to these lands reclaimed from the sea".