In 2003 we were sitting together with our staff from Amed Dive Center, Hotel Uyah Amed and Cafe Garam discussing these problems. We were concerned especially because Hotel Uyah Amed and Cafe Garam are designed ECO friendly and strive for environmental protection and maintenance of the traditional sea salt production. As almost all staff in Hotel Uyah Amed, Cafe Garam and Amed Dive Center descends from Amed village and most of their families still earn their livings as fishermen or salt farmers, they were aware of the effects of erosion. What to do about it and how? They came up with the idea to rebuild the formerly existing reef with an artificial reef, contribute with that to the marine life and try to stop the process of erosion. Despite several attempts to explain the objective of Amed Dive Center the local fishermen did not understand why Amed Dive Center wanted to drop concrete- and other objects in the middle of their fishing area, which they had "cleaned" from annoying corals some 20 years ago. Only after about one year, several damaged fishing nets, angry fishermen and overturned reef units we found a solution to respect the intentions of each other. An area around 100 square meters was chosen and marked by a buoy. Even more important, the fishermen started to understand the context of coral reef and marine life. They could see that even this small artificial reef is full of tiny marine life and therefore attracts bigger fish which they can catch. Another side effect of Amed Ghost Bay is that more and more divers become aware of the excellent macro diving just in front of Hotel Uyah Amed. From time to time the fishermen therefore earn some extra money by guiding tourists for a sunset sailing trip or bringing them to a nearby diving spot by their traditional outrigger boats, locally called Jukung.