The eastern end of the Daytona Beach Pier, which takes a pounding from storms, is shut down until early May for repairs to its piles and cross bracing.
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The work was relatively minor routine maintenance,” said Susan Cerbone, the city s spokeswoman.
“The east end of the pier gets the brunt of the ocean’s force,” Cerbone said.
She said the pier had to be closed because crews needed to work from the deck of the city-owned pier, which is located at the eastern tip of Main Street.
The pier is popular with anglers because it s one of the few places in the area they don t need a license to fish. It s also free to drop a line off of the pier.
There’s also ocean fishing available with no license required on Sunglow Pier in Daytona Beach Shores. Fishing on Sunglow Pier, home of Crabby Joe’s Deck & Grill restaurant, costs $7 for adults and $3 for ages 11 and under.
DAYTONA BEACH Big changes could be coming to the Daytona Beach Pier, the historic building that sits atop the wooden span and Breakers Oceanfront Park.
An artificial reef could even be constructed a short distance off shore to improve surfing and calm waves that batter the nearly 100-year iconic pier.
The city will pay a West Palm Beach firm $173,720 to study the feasibility and costs of several possible changes. The firm will explore constructing a new pier, bolstering the existing 740-foot-long span, making an addition to the city-owned structure, renovating the building that houses Joe s Crab Shack and establishing new uses of the park that overlooks the beach. City commissioners decided at their meeting Wednesday night to hire the Wantman Group to tackle all of that.