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Title: Minn Kota Edge Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
Writer: Walter H. Rich
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Fishing Reasons From The GULF OF MAINE [1]
by
WALTER H. Wealthy Agent, United States Bureau of Fisheries
CONTENTS
Intro Acknowledgements Gulf of Maine Geographical and Historic Title Explanation Bay of Fundy
Inner Grounds External Reasons Georges Region Offshore Banking institutions Tables of Capture,
1927 Maps Directory to grounds
PREFACE TO THE 1994 EDITION
Fishing Reasons of the Gulf of Maine by Walter H. Rich first showed up in the U.S. Department of
Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries, Document of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries, for your
financial year 1929.
When Captain Robert McLellan of Boothbay Harbour passed away in 1981, the employees from the
Maine Department of Marine Sources offered money to be utilized to purchase publications within
his memory, for your Department's Fishermen's Collection. Captain McLellan's family members was
requested what purchases they would recommend, along with a top priority was to somehow reprint

2. this work on the minn kota edge grounds. It was a novel that had been useful to Captain McLellan
within his profession, and one which his son, Captain Richard McLellan, found still useful and valid.
Efforts from your employees of the Division of Marine Resources paid to get this task began; film to
breed the pages of the original text was contributed by the Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences; printing
costs had been compensated by the Department.
This is the wish from the Division and its workers the fishermen of today will benefit from the details
within this publication, and they will remember Captain Robert McLellan, a guy who realized using
publications to improve his career as a angler, who knew how you can share his knowledge using the
technological neighborhood, and who was broadly respected by scientists and fishermen alike.
INTRODUCTION
Paralleling the northeastern coast line of The United States is situated a long sequence of fishing
banks--a series of plateaus and ridges increasing from the sea bed to make relatively shallow
soundings. From really earlier times these grounds have already been recognized to and visited from
the adventurers of the countries of western European countries--Spaniard, Portuguese, Northman,
Basque, Frenchman and Breton and Englishman. For hundreds of years these minn kota edge areas
have performed a big component in feeding the nations bordering upon the Traditional western Sea,
and the creation of their sources has become a excellent element in
http://www.youtube.com/user/MinnKotamotors the exploration of the New World.
000,000 pounds of fishery products, which are landed in the United States; and, according to O,
according to statistics collected by the Bureau of Fisheries.[2] these banks annually produce over
400. E. Sette,[3] yearly about one thousand,000,000 pounds of cod are taken on these banks and
landed in the United Canada, France, Newfoundland and States and Portugal.
Evidently the very first known and definitely the most extensive of those is the Great Financial
institution of Newfoundland, so named from time immemorial. From your Flemish Cover, in 44? 06'
western longitude and 47? north latitude, marking the easternmost point of this great region,
expands the Grand Bank westward and southwestward more than about 600 miles of duration.
Thence, other reasons continue the chain, moving along through the Eco-friendly Bank, Saint. Peters
Bank, Traditional western Bank (comprised of a number of more or less linked grounds, like Misaine
Financial institution, Banquereau, The Gully, and Sable Tropical island Financial institution); thence
southwest via Emerald Bank, Sambro and Roseway Los angeles Have, Seal off Island Ground,
Browns Financial institution, and Georges Financial institution using its southwestern extension of
Nantucket Shoals.
To all these is added the long shelving area extending from the coastline to the edge of the
continental plateau and stretching out from the Southern Shoal away Nantucket to New York City,
creating in every, from your eastern part of the Lavish Bank to New York Bay, a range of about
2,000 miles, an almost constant extent of most effective fishing ground.
Inside the bowl that is the Gulf of Maine, the outer margin of which is made from the shoaling of the
drinking water over the Seal off Island Reasons, Browns Financial institution, and Georges Bank,
this chain is additional extended by an additional series of smaller sized grounds, as Lavish Manan
Bank, the German Bank, Jeffreys Financial institution, Cashes Bank, Platts Financial institution,
Jeffreys Ledge, Fippenies Financial institution, Stellwagen or Center Bank; and once this website
again, lying within these, this fishing area is improved by a really large number of smaller reasons
and minn kota edge spots located within a really short distance of the mainland.

3. All these banks are reproduction locations of the most highly valued of our own meals fishes--the
cod, hake, cusk, pollock and haddock and halibut--and every in the appropriate period furnishes
minn kota edge ground where are taken many other essential varieties of migratory and pelagic food
fish in addition to those known as right here. It really is probable that no other fishing region
equaling this in size or perhaps in efficiency is present elsewhere in the world, as well as the
numbers from the total capture taken from it has to show a massive poundage and a most imposing
sum which represents the need for its fishery.
With the most distant of these reasons we will not deal here, departing them for later concern when
mentioning specific of the fishery procedures most characteristic of them. Therefore, we may deal
with of those well-defined locations that lay inside or are alongside the Gulf of Maine, such as the
Bay of Fundy, the interior Reasons (these close to the mainland), the External Reasons (those inside
the gulf), the Georges area, Seal Island Reasons, and Browns Financial institution, these forming the
outer margin of the gulf; and also make reference to certain others of these nearer overseas banking
institutions that are most closely connected with the marketplace fishery of the 3 primary minn kota
edge plug-ins within the Gulf of Maine.
[Footnote 1: First published as Appendix III to the Report of the US Commissioner of Fisheries for
1929. Bureau of Fisheries Doc# 1059. Submitted for publication Jan 18,1929.]
[Footnote 2: United states Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin No. 703]
[Footnote 3: U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 1034]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It has been the writer's endeavor, by consulting a large number of fishing captains of long
experience upon these grounds, to reduce the margin of inaccuracy as much as possible, as to the
charts. In case of conflict of their opinion, the greatest contract as to the details continues to be
accepted.
The reasons as drawn are not meant to consist of any definite depth bend but are meant to show

4. certain minn kota edge areas. It is recognized obviously, that many varieties frequent the shallows
as well as the strong drinking water in the various seasons: also, that certain other varieties are
located on the deeper soundings during practically all the year. If a given area appears as a larger
ground than is shown upon other charts made for navigating purposes, often this is because we have
included in it a cusk ground or a hake bottom lying adjacent to the shoal as charted, thus.
A large number of these grounds have already been explained before by G. Browne Goode and
others, and in which feasible their function has been used being a basis for the current papers, with
any more details or the noting of the altered condition from the grounds or distinction in fishing
techniques utilized on them which was accessible.
Grateful acknowledgment is hereby designed to the numerous captains who decorated information
that, made the drawing of the charts feasible and for the facts utilized in the descriptions from the
fishing reasons.
With the offshore banks, especially using the Georges region and Browns Bank and to a certain
degree, also, the traditional western part of the Inner Reasons, the writer has had a substantial
individual acquaintance from which to draw.
For your historical and geographical data the author has offered freely from various modern writers,
who, within their turn, have driven their details from older documents. Amongst those offered are
Holmes's United states Annals; Parkman's Innovators of France within the New Planet; Southgates
History of Scarburo; Abbott and Elwell's Background of Maine; Willis's Background of Maine;
Sabine's Report around the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas; A History of the Discovery
from the East Coastline of The United States, by Doctor. John G. Kohl, of Bremen, Germany;
different chapters of Hakluyt's Voyages; the Diary of John Jocelyn, Gent.; and New Britain Trials
from the well-known Captain John Smith.