Annotto Bay Fishing Beach

Fish Beach · St. Mary

Rating: 4.4 / 5

Annotto Bay is a working fishing village on the north-east coast of Jamaica, in the parish of St. Mary about an hour east of Ocho Rios on the way to Port Antonio. Boats land daily catches on the town's black-sand fishing beach — snapper, jack, kingfish and conch are the mainstays — and there is usually a small informal market in the morning as buyers select from the night's work. It is a quiet, genuinely local stop on the coast road, with none of the tourist set-up of the resort towns.