Cruzan Fisheries: A rapid assessment of the historical, social, cultural and economic processes

6.9. Landing sites “En la playa es que debe ser el fish market, no la pudrición que hay allí” 29 In the absence of place-based fishing communities, ramps and piers become another important node in the network. Ramps are primarily used to deploy boats, land catch and many times to sell fish. According to Kojis (2004) about a third of the fish transactions take place in these structures, but as stated before, most sell their fish directly to customers or in the fish market. Here we present a list of the top landing sites around St. Croix (Table 8). The location of these sites can be seen on Figure 20.

Table 8: Main landing sites around the island of St. Croix.

Landing site

Location

Altoona Lagoon

N-NE

Molasses Pier

S

Fredericksted Pier

W

Gallows Bay

N-NE

Castle Nugent

S-SE

Salt River Bay

N

Christiansted

N

Teague Bay

NE

Green Cay Marina

N

Solitude

N

Turner Hole

SE

Duggans Reef

NE

Great Pond

SE

marlin from those waters and (instead, is) giving the business to another country! They think that by stopping us from catching marlin they are going to bring the marlin back.”

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“The fish market should be on the beach, not in that rotten place” (La Reine). This statement was offered by a fisherman who complains about the stench coming from rotten fish dumped at the Fish Market and a detractor of the place.

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