West Peel Artificial Reef is a 50ha area of clustered concrete reef balls in about 15m of water on the west side of Peel Island.

The reef was installed in 2010, with more reef balls added in 2012 and 2013.

The reef is made of 341 reef balls in 19 clusters of 10 to 16 balls of varying sizes, rising to almost a metre off the seabed.

The balls within each cluster are spaced a few metres apart and each cluster is between 100m to 200m apart.

This is a reasonably sheltered location near boat ramps, but it gets choppy with a sea breeze and runout tide combination.

West Peel Reef Fish Species

The reef does not look much on a sonar, and often produces small fish, but jewfish are caught at times.

Other species include pink snapper, tricky snapper (“grassies”), sweetlip, cod, flathead and tuskfish.

Pelagic fish pass through on occasion, including mackerel and cobia.

West Peel Reef GPS Marks

Reef ball clusters

27 29.880S 153 18.725E
27 29.921S 153 18.849E
27 30.002S 153 18.715E
27 29.997S 153 18.890E
27 30.075S 153 18.802E
27 30.117S 153 18.702E
27 30.185S 153 18.867E
27 30.232S 153 18.800E
27 30.275S 153 18.700E
27 30.276S 153 18.855E
27 30.350S 153 18.772E

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