Fishing in Montego Bay Jamaica makes for perfect bone fishing !
Centuries ago, Montego Bay got its start as a small fishing village. For a long time, the fish provided a comfortable living for the people. However, overfishing and other poor environmental practices caught up with the area in the mid-20th century. Fish populations have dwindled in size and number, and the fisherman have struggled to make a living for many years now. Fortunately, many now recognize the need to pursue sustainable practices in order to restore balance to the marine ecosystem. Popular for smaller fish species and largely used within the murkier inshore waters of the Montego River estuary. Gill nets are laid floating, then the water is bashed with long polls to scare fish into the net. Beach seine techniques are also used. Nets usually target small fish species, so larger fish of these habitats such as tarpon or snook are rarely boated. Nets are occasionally used in reef habitats. However, net damage makes these areas undesirable for this equipment. This is the only entirely illegal fishing activity for the Park area. However, enforcement has proven difficult and incomplete. Spear fishers are able to target larger, reproductively valuable fish, including rarer species such as grouper, snapper and angelfish. This activity requires good lungs, clear water and relatively shallow living fish. Deeper or murky habitats are rarely fished. The Antillean fish pot is the most popular fishing method in the reef and clearer water areas in Jamaica and in the Montego Bay area. The fish pot is a trap like a lobster trap, with a funnel entrance through which the fish enter the pot and then cannot figure out how to get back out. They are usually made of wire chicken mesh over an almond wood frame. They may be as large as 2.2 M high and 3 M long. They work for most reef species, and are particularly effective for grouper and snapper species, which are attracted to baits, and like to hide in caves (which may actually be pots). Interestingly, several very large green moray eels in the park area seem to have figured out how to get into and out of the pots at will, so they may be seen in the rocks next to the pot set area with full bellies, while the pots contain only a few fish bits and terrified stragglers. Stingrays and nurse sharks will also suck dead fish through the wire mesh.
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