Fishing in Sint Eustatius makes for perfect bone fishing !
If you're interested, you can join Statians in a crab hunt. The Quill's crater is the breeding ground for these large crustaceans. At night they emerge from their holes to forage, and that's when they're caught. Either with flashlights or relying on moonlight, crab hunters climb the Quill, catch a crab, and take the local delicacy home to prepare stuffed crab back. Your hotel can usually hook you up with this activity. A number of artificial reefs have been created by the Marine Park since active management commenced in 1997. Some of these artificial reefs have been created for fishing purposes, and others for divers. The first artificial reef was created in 1997 for fishermen, due to the loss of fishing area when the Reserves were created, and is named ‘STENAPA Reef’. This reef is a collection of barge and tug boats that were sunk by Statia Terminal for the Marine Park. The reef is now heavily encrusted with algae, sponges, soft and hard corals, and it has attracted large numbers of fish and turtles so that is has become a popular dive site – particularly at night when divers see sleeping turtles - and has been marked with a dive mooring. The fishing reef was initiated following a meeting with local fisherman in February 2004; they requested that the Marine Park create an artificial reef designated solely for fishing, and not as a dive site. It was agreed at that meeting to locate the new reef at a depth of 75 feet, west of the Southern Marine Reserve. Following some equipment delays, the reef was finally completed in February 2006 with the sinking of a pipe, concrete mix barrel and the tug boat “Miss Cathy”. The Marine Park wishes to acknowledge the assistance provided by Statia Terminal in making this project possible. The new species were observed in large numbers, in particular shoals of Bar Jack, Blue Tang, Striped Grunts and Horse-eye Jacks, all drawn to the area by the new reef structures. As had been agreed upon in 2004 this site is only used for fishing; there is no dive mooring attached, and the site is marked for fishermen by a small brown buoy. It seems that the new reef is also attracting other marine life. Earlier this month local fisherman “Gordo” caught the largest lobster ever recorded in the Statia Marine Park at this site; it weighed approximately seven pounds
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