Edible Fish & Tortoises In Salt Ponds!
In Rev. Charles de Rochefort’s 1658 book* about the Natural History of the Antilles, we can read that St. Martin salt ponds were filled with edible fish, in particular sea tortoises.
*DE ROCHEFORT Charles, The History of the Caribby Islands, Book I; Natural History of Those Islands (1658), printed by J.M, London, 1666, p.26-27.