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Pretty much every saltwater tackle shop will have them and they are excellent when used with cut/chunked bait. When properly fished, the hook will catch the corner of the mouth and in many cases increase your hookups. The key to setting a circle hook is not to haul back like you typically would to set the hook. The circle hook will not catch deep in the gut of the fish (very important when releasing undersized fish) but will catch just the corner. When a fish takes the bait and starts to go, keep the rod tip low and pointed towards the fish. Reel in evenly and steady and circle hook, which is very sharp, will catch in the corner of the jaw. Then you're on. But if you use a had hookset, you can easily pull the hook out of the fishes mouth.
Circle hooks are (we've been debatring this a lot) not as effective with live baits like eels or macks in my opinion but are very good with cut and chunk baits...
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