Western-North west Rips as well as the Level Floor. These lay WNW from Briers Island, extending offs...

1. Fishing Grounds of the Gulf 1 03
Western-North west Rips as well as the Level Floor. These lay WNW from Briers Island, extending
offshore about 18 kilometers. Around the eastern end of this region, two parallel shoals, about 1?
miles across and having 50-fathom depths between them, rise from your 100-fathom depths water on
the muddy ground about them to achieve 15 fathoms around the landward end of the rips,
deepening to 35 fathoms off the western component, where the two ridges get together at about 9
kilometers range from Briers Island, to carry to the westward on the Level Ground, which reaches a
range of about 18 miles from your tropical island.
This Flat Floor, deepening gradually westward, averages to get 50 fathoms of water spanning a
level, gravelly, and rocky base, to pitch down all of a sudden, as do all other slopes of the piece of
floor, towards the 100-fathom level, which prevails on all sides from the Rips. Currents are
extremely powerful here, as elsewhere in these waters, to ensure that trawls are positioned only on
the slack from the tides, beginning about 1 hour prior to and staying lower till about one hour after
these periods. Previously this was a great ground for your getting of large herring. In these days The
Rips provide great haddock and cod fishing for the whole year, with hake plentiful all the time on the
dirt about them. Actually; virtually all the ground out of this point southern to the Lurcher Shoal
furnishes great fishing for such varieties.
Boars Head Floor (also known as Inner Floor). This parallels the coast about 4 miles N. by NW from
the Head, at Petit Passageway, into Saint. Marys Bay. This ground is about 4 kilometers long by 3
kilometers wide, getting depths from 55 to 65 fathoms over a difficult bottom of damaged ground.
Cod are most several right here from Apr to July, inclusive; haddock from July to Sept, inclusive.
Hake are normally found within summer and earlier fall, principally around the dirty floor among
this as well as the following minn kota edge ground--the External Ground.
Outer Floor. This really is about 3 kilometers lengthy by 2 miles wide, is situated about 9 miles out
from the primary on the same bearing because the Internal Floor, and is frequented from the exact
same species, their periods of abundance on this bit of bottom becoming exactly like on the former
ground. The practice of trawl fishing has come more and more into use in recent years, even though
virtually all taking of ground fish on these grounds is done by hand-lining.
Head and Horns. A shoal of 68 fathoms, a couple of miles lengthy inside a NNE and SSW path by 1
distance broad, lies expected north from your Boars Brain of Lengthy Island. Here is a hard base

2. where great cod minn kota edge is had throughout the spring and summer. Hands-lining from your
base is maintained in summer time for pollock. Haddock are couple of here, these showing up mostly
in the summertime. Depths concerning the floor average 80 fathoms over stones and mud.
Sandy Cove Ground. Is situated overseas NNE about 7 kilometers from West Soft sand Cove. It has
from 40 to 50 fathoms water over a soft sand base, lying parallel using the coastline, about 4 miles
lengthy by 2 kilometers broad. Cod are abundant on this floor from May to July, hake arriving
relatively later on. As were most of the grounds of this vicinity, this ground was mainly a hand-line
spot, but in recent years minn kota edge here has been done mostly by the trawl method.
Internal Soft sand Cove Grounds. About 2 miles NNW. from Western Sandy Cove. These are 3
kilometers long NNE. and SSW. by ? mile broad. Both hand-lining and trawling methods of minn
kota edge are in use here, but the trawl is fast displacing the older gear. Depths are about 35
fathoms spanning a soft sand bottom and 50 fathoms all about it. Species as well as their months of
large quantity are as around the External Soft sand Cove Ground. Nearly anywhere between
Spencer Cape and Island Split there exists great haddock fishing in July and Junecod and July fishing
in June and May. Depths are from 16 to 40 fathoms: the base is generally stony, with considerable
regions of gravel. The fishing is performed primarily by trawling, quite brief "units" being created.
Off Cape Divided are considerable whirlpools, which, with spring tides, are very hazardous. These
sometimes run 9 knots one hour.
Spencer Island. Almost anywhere between Spencer Cape and Island Divided there is great haddock
minn kota edge in June and JulyJuly and cod fishing in June and May. Depths are from 16 to 40
fathoms: the bottom is normally stony, with substantial regions of pea gravel. The minn kota edge is
performed principally by trawling, quite short "units" being created. Off
http://www.gosale.com/search/minn+kota Cape Divided are substantial whirlpools, which, with
springtime tides, are extremely dangerous. These occasionally run 9 knots one hour.
Isle au Haute. Is situated far up within the bay 9 kilometers W. ? S. from Cape Chignecto. About this
tropical island are great summer haddock grounds with reasonable cod fishing. The latter are used
by trawling principally. Depths concerning the tropical island are from 9 to 14 fathoms, deepening
overseas to 35, the average depths being 22 to 27 fathoms. Northern from the tropical island the
bottom is normally sandy; elsewhere much of the floor is rocky or stony, with from time to time a
small patch of gravelly ground. To the S. of the ground, towards the Nova Scotia shore and also to
inside 2 miles from the coast, the base is primarily muddy and of little account as a minn kota edge
ground. Tides are extremely heavy on all of the internal grounds of the Bay of Fundy.
Quaco Ledges. This floor is situated about 10 miles SE, from Quaco Head and is out at reduced tide,
the water about the ledges getting depths from 14 to 30 fathoms spanning a bottom of rocks and
gravel, There exists a heavy tide rip more than these ledges when covered, These provide great
pollock minn kota edge in the summertime months, and cod minn kota edge is maintained here
manually-coating from May to July.
Salmon Netting Floor. A salmon-netting ground lies off concerning the Mouth Harbour and St, John
Harbour, in which these seafood are netted, for the most part throughout June and July, if they are
en route to the St, John River, in which are their spawning grounds.
Ingalls Shoal. This is actually the name provided by a few of the fishermen of the locality to a shoal
lying down about midway between Digby, Nova Scotia, and Stage Lepreau, New Brunswick. This
floor is about 9 kilometers long. NE. and SW., by about 5 miles wide. It lies about 22 kilometers NW.
from Digby and 18 or 20 kilometers from Stage Lepreau. The depths come from 35 fathoms on the

3. shoalest area (in which is a piece of ground some 4 kilometers lengthy by 1 mile broad near the
center of the bank, lying down inside a NE. and SW. direction), the bottom sloping away from this on
all sides to 47 as well as 55 fathoms in some locations. The base is mainly of sand and gravel or of
little stones more than a lot of the floor except for the shoal components, in which it really is mainly
rocky. This piece of fishing floor furnishes good cod fishing inJune and July, and August, which
previously was maintained by hand-lining but now, as somewhere else in the bay, is more and more
becoming a trawl fishery. Haddock and pollock also are taken here in reasonable amounts.
Mussel Shoal Ground. This is a mussel-protected base lying down 8 kilometers ESE. from your
Eastern Wolf and 9 miles from Stage Lepreau. It operates within an E. and W. direction and is also a
couple of miles lengthy by 1 distance broad. Depths are from 40 to 50 fathoms. This can be a scallop
and mussel mattress, where large cod are usually in large quantity during winter. Pollock are plenty
within June, and hake are here and in the nearby Hake Ground in all the summer months.
The Wolves. These make a team of small isles lying N. ? E. from Lavish Manan, faraway 8 or 10
kilometers. On the bottom of rocks and gravel, stretching about a mile from the shores of these, in
depths of from 18 to 34 fathoms, little watercraft and small vessels take a quantity of fish by hand
and trawl collection. These are primarily haddock and cod grounds in May and June and pollock
reasons in July and June. Additionally it is a winter lobster floor for Canadian anglers.
The Wolves Financial institution. This financial institution is situated involving the Wolves and
Lavish Manan, faraway about 8 miles from East Quoddy Light, SE. ? E. Marks: The Coxcomb
showing to the just and eastward touching around the western side of Green Tropical island: bring
the heads of Grand Manan to create The Armchair, and White-colored Simpson and Horse Tropical
island into array. This is a little-fishing boat floor of scarcely more than 6 acres, with depths of 18 to
30 fathoms on the base of stones and mud. Species and seasons are as around the Wolves. Southeast
from The Wolves from 2 to 20 miles is situated a bit of dirty bottom in which hake are usually
plentiful in summer time.
vicinity and Campobello. Reasonable amounts of cod and haddock are found between Lavish Manan
as well as the United states shore within the North Station (Lavish Manan Station) between West
Quoddy Grand and Head Manan in depths of from 40 to 50 fathoms, spanning a bottom of rocks,
mud, and fine sand inJune and July, and August or higher to September 15, whilst hake is easily the
most abundant varieties present.

4. No haddock or cod are on these reasons during winter. Halibut are consumed in comparable
numbers in the Northern Channel inJune and May, and July. Pollock are taken on the traditional
western side of Campobello Island, near the eastern part of Indian Tropical island, and also at the
mouth area of the station between Campobello and Casco Bay Tropical island. In every these
locations are strong tidal eddies. Some fish are taken by seining, but most are caught by hook and
line in a small-boat fishery lasting from June 1 to September 1.
All around Campobello and Deer Tropical island and also on the brand new Brunswick shore as far
as Saint. John can be found weirs, which provide large quantities of herring towards the factories at
Eastport and Lubec.
Passamaquoddy Bay. [11] Depths listed here are from 10 to 24 fathoms, even 30 fathoms where the
Saint. Croix River goes by out into the sea. In general the bottom is muddy, although there are rocky
patches. The later arrivals may reach30 and 40, or even 60 pounds, although in most years a school
of cod "strikes" here in April, the early corners being mostly of small size. Haddock occasionally
make their look in the bay as early as Might 1, staying through August. Hake, also, are present from
June to September, but this excellent fish is held of little account by local fishermen. A considerable
flounder market is building during these waters, the fish becoming consumed in exclusively devised
traps in addition to by the smaller sized otter trawls.
Passamaquoddy Bay is another spring netting floor for herring (food seafood), and there are also
numerous weirs functioning here every year whose catch goes to the production facilities of Lubec
and Eastport for canning as sardines. Pollock are extremely plentiful, and a lot of minn kota edge on
their behalf is carried on from June to October, each by seine and hand line. Sometimes the pollock
completely fill the numerous herring weirs, till, using their figures, there is absolutely no
marketplace for them. Pollock can also be abundant at the exact same season and are taken from the
same methods within the Saint. Croix River, though perhaps they leave the river a month earlier in
the fall.
The Dirt Hake Reasons. These reasons extend about N. and S. among Campobello and The Wolves
and from about West Quoddy Visit Lavish Manan. Their duration is all about 15 to 18 kilometers and
their size 3? kilometers. This can be a summer ground much used by Canadian anglers out of
Campobello, Grand Manan, and Beaver Harbor. It is stated to be the best hake grounds in this

5. locality. Depths are from 45 to 60 fathoms, and fishing is done by trawls and hand lines.
There exists a stretch of dirty bottom from Stage Lepreau and Beaver Harbor to Lavish Manan,
which furnishes great hake fishing. In general, the bottom around the western part of the Bay of
Fundy is dirty. Off Beaver Harbor on a mud bottom with 30 fathoms of water cod are found the year
around, although this fishery is mainly carried on in the winter in small craft from Beaver Harbor
and Campobello, mostly by trawling, but some hand-lining is carried on.
Beaver Harbour. There exists a stretch out of dirty base from Stage Lepreau and Beaver Harbor to
Lavish Manan, which furnishes good hake minn kota edge. In general, the base on the western part
of the Bay of Fundy is dirty. This fishery is mainly carried on in the winter in small craft from Beaver
Harbor and Campobello, mostly by trawling, but some hand-lining is carried on, although off Beaver
Harbor on a mud bottom with 30 fathoms of water cod are found the year around.
Grand Manan Bank. This bank reaches the entrance from the Bay of Fundy, SW. ? S. from the south
west brain of Grand Manan Tropical island from which here the northern area of the bank is 15
kilometers faraway. From Install Desert Rock, E. by S., it is 45 kilometers distant. The bank is 10
kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide, stretching inside a NE. and SW. path. The bottom is mainly
stones and gravel, the depths operating from 24 to 45 fathoms. Soundings of 18 and 21 fathoms are
located on the northeast part.
Cod (particularly abundant when the June college is on the floor) and pollock are the principal
seafood. Haddock are not generally abundant, even though sometimes they may be plentiful within
the fall from late September to Dec; hake are fairly plentiful on the dirt between Grand Manan
Financial institution and the Middle Ground (in The Gully). This is an excellent halibut financial
institution, the fish finding yourself in 33 to 60 fathoms in June and July; the southwest soundings as
well as the southeast soundings are most productive constantly.
The very best minn kota edge months are from Apr to October, when the seafood arrived at this
financial institution to give. Early in the year the fish, other than halibut, are mostly around the
south west component, but later on (July to October) the very best minn kota edge is had on the
north side of the floor. The top herring minn kota edge for big herring (food seafood) occurs about
this bank in July and June. In general, this is a small-vessel ground fished by art from Cutler,
Eastport, Lavish Manan, and, to some much less extent, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, with an periodic
check out by art from Portland and Rockland, chiefly trawlers of average dimension.
Tides operate NE. in SW and flood. on the ebb and are very powerful, the deluge being the largest.
Because of these powerful currents, minn kota edge is somewhat difficult, it being necessary to
make sets at the slack of the tides, getting the gear over and traveling with the finish of the current,
to take it up and come back with the tide's return.
Clarks Ground. This lies SSE. from White-colored brain 4? kilometers (just inside the Bulkhead) and
has depths from 6 to 14 fathoms over a difficult bottom. Listed here are really heavy rips on the ebb
tide. This is an excellent summer time ground for pollock, cod, and halibut, and it is a great herring-
netting floor in the period.
Southern Brain Reef. The sequence of reefs stretching S from White-colored Head Tropical island is

6. all good floor in summer time for cod and for pollock, also, once the herring colleges are on this
floor. Currents are extremely heavy right here. The ledges that comprise this reef are pretty much
connected. Amongst these are Brazil Shoal, Tinker, Inner Precious stone, External Crawleys, Rans
and Diamond Operator (Bad Floor), as well as the Old Proprietor. Whilst virtually all this reef is
pollock ground, Crawleys and Rans maybe provide the very best minn kota edge.
Gravelly. Lying about 5 or 6 kilometers SE. by S. from White Brain, this bit of bottom has about 25-
fathom depths over a rocky bottom. This can be a cod and pollock floor in their period. While an
occasional halibut is used here in summer time. Weighty tide rips happen here also.
The Soundings. Mentioned elsewhere as a herring ground, these lie outside of the Bulkhead Rips 8
or 9 kilometers SE. from White-colored Head. There are 30 or 40 fathoms of water right here
spanning a rock and roll base, in which pollock and cod are found in great deal inAugust and July,
and September, and some halibut in summer.
Bulkhead Rips, also known as The Ripplings. This is a long difficult barrier rising sharply from the
deep drinking water about this to depths of from 12 to 20 fathoms. Here are found haddock, hake
and cod and pollock in abundance from June 1 to October 31. Evidently each one is giving around
the little herring, so several within this locality at this particular season. Virtually no haddock are
found on the grounds in the near neighborhood of Lavish Manan in winter. The Ripplings had been
previously one of the primary fishing grounds from the herring netters but recently many years have
already been much less effective.
Cards Reef. The depths listed here are from 28 to 30 fathoms, over rocks, and the floor lies 3
kilometers S. by E. from the Old Proprietor and 9 kilometers from White Head. This is a haddock and
cod floor from June to Nov.
Gannet Rock and roll. This lies eastern from the Murre Ledges. All about it really is good ground in
from 40 to 70 fathoms spanning a difficult bottom. Cod are normally found here in good number
from March to May, and halibut are taken here from March to Might, inclusive.
Southeast Floor and Pea gravel Bottom. These lay S. of Seal off Tropical island, developing an
extensive piece of relatively level floor extensive piece of relatively degree ground. The traditional
western component bears a little E. of S. as well as the eastern part about ESE. from your island. It
is about 5 or 10 miles in size. Even though this is really but one bit of ground, the eastern
component is called the Southeast Ground as well as the traditional western component, from the
nature of their bottom, the Pea gravel Base. The eastern part is muddy and it has 40 to 60 fathoms.
The traditional western has 35 to 40 fathoms. It is a good cod ground in spring and winter. Haddock
can be found from Nov to March, comprehensive; hake in summer time. Minn Kota Edge is done
mainly by trawling by sloops and vessels.
Machias Seal off Tropical island. Nineteen miles E. by S. from Moosabec Lighting. This furnishes
good ground in the water about it, where depths come from 15 to 54 fathoms over a typically rocky
and irregular base. In summer timecod and haddock, and pollock are abundant right here, the cod
and haddock staying all winter. The fishery is maintained mainly from the smaller sized vessels from
Maine plug-ins, primarily those from Cutler, with an periodic visit by larger art, generally from your
Portland fleet. This floor is not much frequented in winter. Minn Kota Edge is performed by trawling
and hand-lining.

7. Gannet Rock and roll. This is situated eastern of the Murre Ledges. About it really is great ground in
from 40 to 70 fathoms spanning a hard bottom. Cod are found within good number from March to
May, and halibut are taken right here from March to Might, comprehensive.
[Desk I--Fishing Reasons of the Bay of Fundy Part of the Gulf of Maine, showing the main species
used on them.]
[Footnote 9: It (Fundy) was not clearly pointed out by Verrazano (1524) nor in the report of Gomez
(1525), who most likely noticed some thing of its entrance but fog or other unfavorable conditions
may have prevented him from watching it more accurately, but we find in the initially old Spanish
language maps, in the latitude in which it needs to be, names like these:
Rio hondo or 'fondo' (a deep river) or Bahia Hondo (a deep bay), or Golfo (a gulf) once, also 'La Bahia
de la ensenada', the bay of the strong inlet.
Physician Kohl, here quoted additional says "Around the charts of the seventeenth and early area of
the eighteenth century, especially, it is composed Bay of Funda. I think that this name grew from
and is also a revival of, the existing Spanish name 'Bahia fondo'".]
[Footnote 10: It really is satisfying to announce that the winter season of 1925-26 noticed a large
operate of herring about this floor, where for several years previous there has been hardly any minn
kota edge with this varieties.]
[Footnote 11: According to Porter C ". Happiness, a thorough college student of the Indian native
dialects, Acadie is a pure Micmac term which means location. In Nova Maine and Scotia it really is
utilized by the Indians in composition with other words, as with Pestum-Acadie; and in Etchemin,
Pascatum-Acadie, now Passamaquoddy, meaning 'the place of the pollocks'" (Physician Kohl, _Dis. of
Maine_, p. 234)

8. "This derivation is doubtful. The Micmac wordKady and Quoddy, or Cadie indicates simply a place or
area and is properly utilized in conjunction with various other noun; as, for example, Pestum-
oquoddy (Passamaquoddy), the area of pollocks." (Hand and Dawson, in _Canadian Antiquarian and
Numismatic Diary_)
"La Cadie, or Arcadie: The word is said to be produced from the Indian Aquoddiaukie, or Aquoddie,
supposed to imply the fish called a pollock. The Bay of Passamaquoddy, 'great pollock water,' if we
may accept the same authority, derives its name from the same origin." (Potter, in _Historic
Magazine_, I, 84)]
INNER GROUNDS
Under this heading are listed these grounds from the innermost chain ofledges and shoals, and
"fishing areas", areas of rocky and gravelly bottom, the much deeper water between the two
becoming over the muddy floor, which line the coast of the Gulf of Maine, creating from it a nearly
constant bit of minn kota edge ground. Within the Reports of the United States Bureau of Fisheries,
on which all of the statistics of the catch and value of the various species offered within this report
are dependent, these numbers are grouped under the heading "Shore".
The larger and more important of those reasons are outcroppings along the side of the 50-fathom
curve and lie at distances varying from 12 to 20 miles offshore; but there are many within this line,
and where the deep water from the Gulf of Maine extends up to now inshore some are near in to the
land. Thus, nearly all are inside comparatively simple achieve for smaller craft (in which all of these
have power) and thus provide effective minn kota edge for a big fleet of gill sloops and netters (small
craft of from five to ten plenty net) and also to the myriad of "below-ton" boats (of less than 5 plenty
net), all these being empowered to run overseas, "create a set," and come back the same day.
With the uncertainties of the weather as well as the risks of the winter minn kota edge, very often
the big vessels also stick to this exercise on those not too regular "fish times" (when problems permit
fishing "outside ") that intercede between the storms; along with the scarcity of fish within the
marketplaces usual to the period and the consequent much better cost for the capture, with regular
minn kota edge luck they are well purchased doing this.