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The Arinaga coast, Gran Canaria

Rock platform · Salt water

A long low lava platform on Gran Canaria's dry south-east coast, cut into ledges and gullies at sea level, with the mole at Arinaga at one end and the rock of Risco Verde and the Castillo del Romeral ground beyond it.

Safety: cliffs and rock platforms — can cause serious injury or death. 2 more points apply here.

What each one does, and what reduces it ↓

FishingHQ describes what this place is, not whether you may fish it. Access, permits and who to ask.

What you can catch here

Documented at this place, grouped by how you would be fishing, with how strongly the sources support each one. This is what has been written down, not a forecast, and being listed is never permission to fish.

From the shore · 4

From a boat · 1

What these strengths mean
Regular local target
Fishing sources describe this as a normal local target here, not merely as caught.
Repeatedly reported
Several independent public accounts. Enough to say it happens more than once; not enough to call it a fishery.
Recorded here
At least one credible public account of this species being caught here. That is all it means.
How breadth is counted
A fish documented at six marks is shown as six marks: breadth never raises the strength on its own. A fishery account describes the fishing; a recorded catch reports one specific catch. How evidence is weighed.

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at The Arinaga coast, Gran Canaria itself. Each one has been documented at a named place on the same ground, and the places are listed with it. Treat this as what the water around here holds rather than as a catch list for this mark.

Widely documented on this ground

Documented at three or more neighbouring places, fished a way this place is also fished. That is a pattern about the ground rather than about any one mark, and it is the closest this site comes to saying you will probably meet a fish somewhere nothing has been written about.

From the shore

  • Mediterranean parrotfish — documented at El Confital; Melenara and Taliarte; Puerto de Mogán (+2 more)
  • Bogue — documented at Melenara and Taliarte; Puerto de Mogán; Maspalomas and El Pajar
  • Salema porgy — documented at Melenara and Taliarte; Puerto de Mogán; Maspalomas and El Pajar

Also documented at neighbouring places

One or two accounts each, on the ground around here. Enough to know the fish is caught in these waters; not enough to say anything about this place.

From the shore

  • Atlantic mackerel — documented at Sardina del Norte, Gran Canaria; The Agaete coast, Gran Canaria
  • Comber — documented at El Confital; The La Aldea coast
  • Dusky grouper — documented at El Confital; The La Aldea coast
  • Red porgy — documented at El Confital; The La Aldea coast
  • European squid — documented at Playa del Cabrón, Gran Canaria
  • Striped red mullet — documented at Maspalomas and El Pajar

How people fish it

Practised here: Sea fishing.

Methods the sources name for this ground. Each one is explained in full on its own page.

  • Spinning

    Casting an artificial lure and retrieving it so that it moves like something alive — the most direct form of lure fishing.

  • Float fishing

    Suspending a bait at a controlled depth beneath a buoyant indicator — the most visual, most controllable and most widely applicable method in angling.

The ground and the water

The ground
A long low lava platform on Gran Canaria's dry south-east coast, cut into ledges and gullies at sea level, with the mole at Arinaga at one end and the rock of Risco Verde and the Castillo del Romeral ground beyond it.
Exposure
Open to the prevailing north-easterly, which is why the sources distinguish the ground constantly: the lower platform below the lighthouse fishes in calm, and Risco Verde is the wind option.
Depth
Deep water close in off the platform edge, shallowing over sand toward the bay — the mixed ground that makes the coast a spinning venue rather than a bait one.

Not to be confused with Playa del Cabrón, Gran Canaria, which is a separate record for different ground.

Getting there

What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-27. Car parks fill, services change and a path existing is not a path anybody may use — none of this is a guarantee of availability and none of it is permission to be anywhere.

Getting to it
The rock and reef coast running south from the village of Arinaga on the island's south-east corner, below the industrial estate and the wind farms. The made coast road runs behind it and the shore itself is reached over broken volcanic ground.
Public transport
Playa de Arinaga, at the northern end of this coast, is served by three scheduled interurban lines: line 22 from Agüimes, line 23 semi-direct from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and line 25 from Faro de Maspalomas. Times, fares and frequency are the operator's and change.
Where this access information comes from
  • Guaguas Global: the interurban bus network of Gran Canaria — Global (Guaguas Global), Gran Canaria, 2026 (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The island bus operator's own line index, establishing that lines 22, 23 and 25 serve this place on a scheduled interurban service.States this directlyPassage read and verified

Through the year

Fished through the year; the sources describe the summer trade-wind months as the hardest on the exposed lower ground.

Safety

Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death

Anglers are swept from rock platforms by individual large sets rather than by the average sea, which means the conditions that kill frequently look survivable for the twenty minutes before they arrive. Wet rock, weed and a swell running onto a sloping platform remove any chance of recovery.

What reduces it: Watch the water for a full set cycle before committing to a position, know the escape route and how long it takes, wear a flotation aid rather than carry one, never fish a platform alone, and treat a rising swell forecast as a reason not to go rather than a reason to be careful.

Drowning and immersion — Can cause serious injury or death

Mediterranean rock shores drop into deep water within a body length of the edge, so a slip puts somebody into water they cannot stand up in, frequently with no beach within reach and nobody in sight.

What reduces it: Wear a flotation aid rather than carry one, fish rock ground with somebody else, carry a means of calling for help on the person, and treat wet or weeded rock at the water's edge as unusable rather than as careful ground.

Sun, dehydration and fatigue — Can cause injury needing treatment

Long summer sessions on shadeless rock produce dehydration and heat exhaustion, and both degrade judgement and coordination well before they produce collapse, on ground where both are what keep somebody safe.

What reduces it: Carry substantially more water than the session appears to need, fish the ends of the day rather than the middle of it in high summer, and treat shade and a stopping time as part of the plan.

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. The Canary Islands are an autonomous community licensing their own recreational sea, boat and underwater fishing, separately from mainland Spain, and the archipelago carries marine reserves in which fishing and diving are restricted or prohibited on boundaries a visitor cannot see from the shore. Measures change. Check the current position with the Canarian government's fisheries administration before going.

Particular to this water: A Canary recreational fishing licence is required, separately for shore, boat and underwater fishing. FishingHQ does not hold the current requirements — check with the Canary regional fisheries authority before fishing.

Who holds the answer:

  • The Canarian government's fisheries administration, which licenses recreational sea and underwater fishing in the archipelago.
  • The island council, for local measures and for access to the coast.
  • The marine reserve administration, where the water is inside a reserve.
  • The regional Canarian government fisheries administration, for recreational licences, sizes and species rules
  • The Spanish national maritime and fisheries authorities, for offshore and vessel matters
  • The managing authority of any marine protected area or reserve, whose zoning governs what is permitted inside it
  • Local dive centres, charter operators and clubs, for current practice and access on individual islands

Nearby fishing

Other publicly documented places within about 40 km, by distance. Positions are approximate public geography and are never exact marks.

The Arinaga coast, Gran CanariaPlaya del Cabrón, Gran CanariaPlaya de Arinaga, Gran CanariaThe El Burrero breakwater, Gran CanariaCastillo del Romeral, Gran CanariaMelenara and TaliarteGran CanariaMaspalomas and El PajarPasito Blanco, Gran Canaria
The Arinaga coast, Gran Canaria and the publicly documented places around it. Approximate positions, not marks. On a narrow screen the plot is wider than the screen and scrolls sideways inside its frame. Positions are approximate by design — they are capped at about a hundred metres and describe where a named public place is, not where fish are and not a mark. Everything plotted here is also listed below.

Sources for this place

  • EMODnet — the European Marine Observation and Data Network — The European Commission, assembled from the national hydrographic offices, geological surveys and marine institutes of the member states (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Charted bathymetry, seabed substrate and seabed habitat for European sea areas, assembled from the national hydrographic and geological surveys, at the resolution the product publishes.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • The European Environment Agency's assessments of Europe's waters, seas and coasts — European Environment Agency, Copenhagen (Conservation authority)Relied on for: Assessment of Europe's coasts and regional seas, including the condition of coastal water bodies, the pressures recorded on them and the coverage of designated sites.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands regional angling guidance sites — Various Canary-based angling and island guidance publishers (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Island-by-island Spanish-language guidance naming the coasts, moles, harbours and beaches that are fished from the shore in the Canaries, and the species presented as local shore species at them.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands angling community and forum material — Public Canary angling forums and community postings (Practitioner report)Relied on for: Public Canary angling community accounts naming specific marks and describing the ground at them, treated as evidence that a mark is genuinely fished and as nothing else.FishingHQ's interpretation of what it saysCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands marine reserves and recreational fishing licensing — Spanish and Canary regional fisheries and environmental authorities (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: That marine reserves exist in the archipelago with zoned rather than uniform restrictions, and that a Canary recreational fishing licence is required for shore and boat fishing alike.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Guaguas Global: the interurban bus network of Gran Canaria — Global (Guaguas Global), Gran Canaria, 2026 (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The island bus operator's line index, establishing three scheduled interurban services reaching this coast.States this directlyPassage read and verified

How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-20.

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