New Escambia County Reef information

Offshore anglers and divers in the Escambia County area now have more places to fish in Gulf of Mexico waters. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has published the coordinates of nine additional public artificial reef sites in an area known as the Escambia East Large Area Artificial Reef Site. These sites were constructed of concrete and steel in 2003 and provide excellent habitat for lots of marine species valued by saltwater anglers and divers. They are located about 19 nautical miles south-southeast of Pensacola Pass in water depths between 84 and 113 feet.

Funding for construction of these new sites was provided by the sale of Florida saltwater fishing licenses.

A list of the nine Escambia artificial reef sites, including differential global position system coordinates and descriptions of each site are given in the table below.

REEFNAME	DESCRIPTION	LATITUDE	LONGITUDE
FWC-EE-1	1 WALTER FLORIDA SPECIAL MODULE FUNDED BY FWC	30° 03.006’	87° 04.880’
FWC-EE-2	1 WALTER FLORIDA SPECIAL MODULE FUNDED BY FWC	30° 05.255’	87° 06.781’
FWC-EE-3	1 WALTER FLORIDA SPECIAL MODULE FUNDED BY FWC	30° 04.598’	87° 08.657’
FWC-EE-4	2 FISH HAVEN TOWERS WITH FISH HAVEN JUNIOR INSERTS FUNDED BY FWC	30° 01.419’	87° 10.195’
FWC-EE-5	2 FISH HAVEN TOWERS WITH FISH HAVEN JUNIOR INSERTS FUNDED BY FWC	30° 05.129’	87° 06.402’
FWC-EE-6	2 FISH HAVEN TOWERS WITH FISH HAVEN JUNIOR INSERTS FUNDED BY FWC	30° 03.278’	87° 05.557’
FWC-EE-7	2 GOLIATH REEFBALLS FUNDED BY FWC	30° 01.462’	87° 09.373’
FWC-EE-8	2 GOLIATH REEFBALLS FUNDED BY FWC	30° 02.931’	87° 05.101’
FWC-EE-9	2 GOLIATH REEFBALLS FUNDED BY FWC	30° 05.404’	87° 07.126’

More information on Florida’s artificial reefs, including a complete list of the locations of all public artificial reef sites in Florida, is available online at MyFWC.com/marine/ar/index.asp.

New public Escambia County artificial reef coordinates are now available