Fishermen and merchants from Ancón will lose up to S/400 per day due to beach closures

Since Thursday afternoon, January 4, an increase in wave height has been observed at the Ancon. Although this phenomenon has caused material damage, no victims have been reported. Given this, for security reasons, the authorities closed the port dock. Giuseppe Atoche, Deputy Manager of Safety and Risk, indicated that three vessels were affected after the abnormal waves.

According to the president of the Fishermen’s Association, Luis Garrido, there are almost 600 workers, including fishermen and shipowners, who have had to take a break from their work due to the anomalous waves that have been recorded in recent days on the beaches of Ancon. This situation would be directly affecting the economy of these families because, per day, they generated about S/400.

Lack of fishing activity would increase prices of marine products

“We live day to day. The day you don’t work you don’t earn. You know that expenses in a home are daily (…). We are losing between 300 to 400 soles per day. We are seeing how we are going to do it,” Luis Garrido explained to La República.

Likewise, he stressed that, given the lack of fishing activity, there is a possibility that the prices of marine products will rise in the next week, which would harm the basic family basket.

“Logically, they can go up. This is governed by supply and demand. Right now the ports are closed and since there is no fish the price goes up, affecting the family basket because we are the ones who provide food to the people,” he explained.

Ancón spa merchants report material losses

More than 50 merchants who work around the spa have lost a large part of their work items.

“My whole business has been filled with water. I have had to leave everything chained up so that the water doesn’t continue to carry away my things. We are saddened that this happens to us in the summer when there is more public (…). Now we have to repair our tables and chairs that have been damaged,” Isolina Ramos, owner of the Nancy restaurant on the Ancón pier, tells La República.

Joel Carrasco, president of the Multiservice Association of Las Palmeras de Ancón, fears that sales will continue to decline due to the closure of access to the beaches.

“This measure is affecting us a lot, people are not coming because the sea is coming out onto the pier. Sales have decreased. If a merchant sold 200 soles, he now only sells 30 soles per day. There is not much reception. However, even so, we have to get out,” he said.