Description
Nature Reserve Zone 2 at Le Prêcheur (ZRN2), to the south of ZPR2, covers an area of 183.2 ha and is bounded to the north by the La Roche / Abymes pontoon site and to the south by Pointe Lamare in Martinique.
Rules to be observed in this zone:
What is prohibited :
- Motorised pleasure fishing
- Set lines and jig fishing
- Underwater hunting
- Mooring and anchoring outside the APIDs and professional moorings (subject to the future installation of ecological moorings and dedicated mooring buoys).
What is permitted?
- Professional fishing.
- Non-motorised recreational angling (2 lines maximum).
- Titiri fishing from 1 August to 1 October.
What you can see:
Below:
- Dense seagrass beds home to numerous species and an important feeding ground for the Green Turtle, classified as "critically endangered".
- Coral and sponge communities, home to numerous benthic species and a major feeding ground for the hawksbill turtle
- Cliffs that are popular for diving and are home to a wide range of biodiversity and marine mammals
- More than 90 species of fish, including rare heritage species and/or those classified as "vulnerable" or "near-threatened", such as the Capitaine, the Sorbe, the Vierge gueule jaune, the Baliste royal, the Pagre dispo, the Raie leopard and the Poisson lune.
- The Pointe Lamare, Les Charmeuses and Babody sites are home to maximum biodiversity in their atypical and sumptuous canyons.
Above:
- Bird species including the Superb Frigate, the Brown Noddy, the Bridled Tern, the Grey Pelican...
- The town of Le Prêcheur, with its pillarless suspension bridge, an architectural feat held up by a single aerial arch to protect the town from the lahars of Montagne Pelée and designed to withstand winds of 250 km/h.
Points of interest
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