Mbachile Crabs bay is a very important snorkeling site
The large beach and Coral reef is a Oasis of snorkeling and traditional fishing
It is known as the bay of the crabs because of soft soil beach which is used to be home of the crabs at night to dig under sand so that you always find a lot of holes around the beach in the morning low tide
small-scale mud crab was very important here in the past years
There also possibility for the shore birds watching, such as crab plovers and other sea birds
the best time for birdwatching in Comoros is during the dry season from May to October. This period offers ideal conditions to spot the diverse avian species across the islands, including the endemic and migratory birds that flock to the region.
They alwas find refuge on the sea side cliffs and rocks
this is not only a reef fishing area but also the open position to a rich deep sea fishing
Demersal fish include sedentary benthic fish that rest on the
bottom, such as skates and rays, flatfish (flounders, soles, etc.),
eels, scorpionfish and armoured gurnards (Peristediidae) and
also more active (free-swimming) fish such as some sharks,
snappers (Lutjanidae), groupers (Serranidae) and the oilfish,
Ruvettus pretiosus, that usually occur within 3 or 4 metres of the
bottom.
Of the 89 fish taxa that were seen, photographed or caught
(with hook and line or traps) in the daytime habitat of the coela-
canth, we were able to identify 65 species (Table 1). For various
reasons, the remaining taxa are identified only to genus or
family level. Our list of the deep demersal fish at Ngazidja is
obviously incomplete, as we made no attempt to collect small
cryptic species (e.g. Scorpaenidae, Callionymidae, Draconettidae,
A few pelagic (open water) fish (thresher sharks, Alopias spp.; hammer-
head sharks, Sphyrna spp.; the manta ray, Manta birostris; and the
ocean sunfish, Mola) were seen once or twice in the coelacanth
habitat, but these pelagic species are rare visitors, with little or no
impacton thedeep demersalfish community,and havenot been
included as members of this community (Table 1). Sizes of fishes
are given as total length (TL), fork length (FL, to tips of middle
caudal fin rays of fish with forked tails) or standard length (SL, to
