Hi all, Jake will probly be the one to set me right on this. I wondering if people can take the muscles from the pilons of warfs/peirs/jetties, for eating. I'm looked at at the BPM web site but it has still left me unclear

Thanks
Dr John Clark

spear fishing and mussel plucking would be nice on bonaire...dinner prices do run a little high...



forgot to mention the mussel appetizer at "it rains fishes" ...kinda like mesequite grilled, shell and all...ust delicious

i know that doesn't answer the question but...

There are no musssels on the piers or jettys so I guess you will have to wait for the weekly shipment from Brussels via Amsterdam or go to Capriccios on Fridays. I also have seen them recently in Warehouse Bonaire.

The piers here are covered by sponges and corals. No mussels or other edible shellfish, alas. You can find occasional flame scallops, but I suspect the meat they would produce would be meager (they tend to be small and very hard to locate).

Just about the only sort of edible creature you could catch without using a fishing line or other legal method of harvesting using auxiliary equipment in the water here would be Caribbean spiny lobsters (you may not scuba dive for them, if I recall correctly, but you may free dive and catch them by hand).

Jake

Is that what this is, a flame scallop? I couldn't figure it out...