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It seems not to be frequented much in the winter, though evidently there is no good reason why thisreally should not be an all-the-year fishing ground. It furnishes, however, a very good summer timehandline fishery for cod at dogfish time, and in the spring a few months it abounds in cod, cusk, andhake, all fish of big size.

Roseway Bank. This bank is N. of your western component of La Have and SE. of Shelbourne Light,Nova Scotia: 31 miles SSE. from the whistling buoy away from Lockport, Nova Scotia, on thesoutheastern edge. It is oblong in shape and also small extent--about 270 square geographical miles.Its greatest size is 21 miles and its greatest breadth 15 mls. It expands from 43? 12' to 43? 33' northlatitude, and from 64? 25' to 64? 52' western longitude and at the northwest corner is connectedwith the shore reduce of 60 fathoms with a narrow the neck and throat. Depths are from 33 to 48fathoms. The bottom is ofyellow sand and pea gravel, and rocks; on the Northeast Top the bottom isof yellowish mud and gravel.

The force and path of both of them are much relying on the winds, although currents in this regionare certainly not nearly so strong as about Cape Sable and Browns Bank, their general course beingWSW. and ENE the westerly much the stronger.

The main minn kota pieces taken here arecod and haddock, and cusk, but hake, halibut and pollockoccur, the ideal fishing months simply being from Could to October, when the lender is resorted toby craft from western Nova Scotia. A few New Britain craft also minn kota parts here.

La Have Banking institution. Situated eastward of Browns S and Bank. and E. of Roseway Bank. Itextends from 42? 34' to 43? 26' northern latitude a distance of 52 miles, and from 63? 50' to 65? 07'west longitude a distance of about 54 miles. The bank is nearly divided into two portions, which theeastern (La Have Bank suitable) extends N and S. 39 kilometers and the western portion practicallyE. and W. about 35 a long way. The total section of the bank is all about 1,200 miles.

The bottom is largely coarsepebbles and pea gravel, and rock and roll, with more compact areas ofyellow sand distributed in some places. Depths manage from 40 to 50 fathoms. The overall set of thecurrents is to the westward, but this really is much affected by the power and course of the wind andis normally quite solid during easterly blows.

The primary minn kota parts upon this bank previously has been for cod and haddock: and whileprevious reports, (1881) speak of this as experiencing once been a favorite sport fishing soil forhalibut and declare that it was not at time of much importance for the reason that fishery, thefigures for this ground to the year 1923 show the halibut capture to have been third in volume andfirst in value of the species considered there. Actually, the capture of halibut here helps make quitean imposing body when the comparatively small scale of the ground is recognized as.

Little Los angeles Have along with the La Have Ridges are just continuations of this back in thedirection of the European Bank for any distance of around 45 miles. This locations the eastern limitwithin 62? 50' west longitude, the north and the southern part of boundaries simply being about asthose of La Have Bank. The section of the ridges is about 1,575 miles. The base here is a successionof ridges of pebbles and pea gravel with occasional areas of stones. Depths are from 53 to 80

fathoms. The current, from time to time strong, is weaker right here than even farther W. in thebank and, except throughout easterly winds, is but little noticed. The general set up is westerly.

"The Ridges" says the report before mentioned, "were for many years among the favorite resorts forhalibut catchers in the wintertime, and many very good catches of cod have been taken at thatseason. At present but few halibut are trapped except in the deep water along the the southern areaof edge of the floor, where they sometimes have been found quite plentiful during nearly the entire12 months." Obviously there is not much alteration of these conditions since the writer's time; minnkota parts are most often present in about the same volumes as in former years.

One piece of bottom, having depths of 25 to 50 fathoms more than red clay, lying approximately in43? 08' to 43? 10' north latitude and about 81? to 83? west longitude, seems a good spring and earlysummertime ground. Evidently red-clay bottom part indicates an excellent halibut ground, as thisvarieties is usually provide where this kind of bottom can be found.

Hake can be found in great numbers from the deep water about the sides of the soil and even aboutthe Ridges.

These waters are quite heavily fished from Canadian ports, as well as a fair amount of Americanvessels visit them each year, many of them hailing from Boston or Gloucester.

Scandinavian Bank. Eighteen miles SSW. from Shelbourne Light. Nova Scotia. It is actually about 3miles long in an E. and W. direction by about ? mile wide. On the whole, the bottom is level, withdepths from 50 to 70 fathoms; the shoal parts are sharp and rocky, the bottom across the deeperservings being composed mostly of small black colored and yellow-colored pebbles.

This really is a summer halibut ground (July and August) in depths from 45 to 60 fathoms, andhalibut occur in October in the further waters about this. It is also a fair summer cod ground, andcusk can be found in the deeply water in regards to the edges in the course of most of the 12months. In periods, general and species are far as on Roseway.

Traditional western Bank. This is one of the most important minn kota pieces grounds of the westernAtlantic, whether as regards size or the great quantity of its product. It lies S. of Cape Breton Islandalong with the eastern a part of Nova Scotia between the parallels of 42? 44 and 55'? 46' northernlatitude as well as the meridians of 59? 04' and 62? 35' west longitude. It has a length of 156 mls anda size, including the Midsection Ground, of 76 kilometers. It is about 420 kilometers E. ? S. fromBoston to the southwestern edge, which means about 48 hours' steaming for the otter-trawl fleet.

The general contour of the bank within the 65-fathom collection, as placed down on the Admiraltychart, approaches relatively a very elongated ellipse, the more time axis working NE. by E. and SW.by W.; but over a extensive area to eastward of the center of the lender, soundings of less than 50fathoms connect it directly with the Middle Terrain, which we have now here in the some lender.The total level of the lender thus identified is about 7,000 sq . geographical kilometers. Off itseastern conclusion lies Banquereau (the Quereau of the anglers) with The Gully between, along witha short distance of the european edge will be the La Have Ridges.

The depths off of the southern edge of the bank increase rapidly from 80 to700 and 1,200, as well as1,400 fathoms. At the eastern stop is Sable Island, [16] "graveyard of ships", aslim and long,crescent-shaped elevation seemingly minimizing in location each year, established entirely of sand

that has been blown Into innumerable hummocks and dunes. Off both stops of the tropical island aredangerous and long fine sand bars. The length of the island is 20 kilometers; its finest width is allabout 1? mls. It is said how the Northwest Lighting has been shifted three times due to the fact thatthe traditional western end from the island has become literally mesmerised. It lies in an E. and W.direction, and the depth of water over the pubs for a extended distance of 7 to 10 miles out does notsurpass 2 fathoms, and even 10 miles farther out the depths do not go beyond 10 to 11 fathoms.Within the past several years fishermen have reported the appearance of a sand shoal about 5 or 6miles SE. from your Northeast Light-weight. This is said to appear at low h2o.

In general, the financial institution slopes S. and W. from the tropical island, depths ranging from 18to 60 fathoms. The bottom is usually sandy with patches of gravel and pebbles. Currents aresometimes very strong about Sable Island and are considerably irregular; apparently they are a lotinfluenced by the winds. Around the other parts in the bank usually there is but little current,whatever there is certainly usually tending toward the west.

Formerly the cod and halibut were the food fishes most taken here, but with the changed methods inthe fishery (as the expansion of the otter-trawl fleet) and a changed preference in our general publicthe haddock catch is one of the second most critical in the invoices of minn kota parts from thewaters. The halibut fishery stands next in the collection. Other underside feeders exist in lessamounts, the pollock and the cusk perhaps being next to be able of importance, with hake and agreat deal of the various flatfishes in the otter trawls. These latter are marketed as sole.

Noting the small amount of haddock from the fares extracted from these oceans in past years, theauthor asked several old-time anglers as to its abundance in the past. The respond was normally yesand Oh, there was always haddock there; at times they bothered us a whole lot." Then, noting mysurprise at so putting it, "You know, the haddock isn't much as a salt minn kota parts."

It will be documented that in 1923 the haddock catch here was a very good next to the cod catch inpoundage, however not so useful proportionately. In the otter-trawl catch using this ground it willprobably be noted how the positions of the two species are reversed. Usually, these steamerscertainly acquire more than 2 pounds of haddock to 1 of cod on other overseas grounds--possibly theresult of functioning in the shoaler waters and on the easier bottom due to the difficulty of draggingwithin the rocky and kelp-covered soil, which the cod seems to prefer. If it is so desired, however thebottom on the Western Lender is of the nature concerning offer small obstruction towards thepassage of the net, to ensure that virtually all parts of it may be fished by this strategy; and this,included in the acknowledged movements of your cod colleges makes it feasible at a number ofseasons of the year to catch a larger proportion with this species.

Haddock are found regarding the bars at both ends of the tropical island in Mar and from that timeto about June 1 in from 15 to 22 fathoms. They are also ample 18 kilometers W. from your NorthwestLight at the very same seasons as well as at the same depths. DuringMay possibly and April, andJune they come in next to the island in from 10 to 17 fathoms--even going to 1 fathom. Through theother year (aside from the cold months, if they have moved off into greater water) they can be foundall around the bank on sandy base in 28 to 30 fathoms, exactly where most of the ray trawlsportfishing is carried on.

There exists a good cod school each year on the relatively level underside along the southwesternand western ends of the ground in 70 fathoms plus more from Feb . 1 to May 1, and in most yearssome this types is adopted this area. In May this school may have moved on to a piece of undersideabout 20 miles lengthy lying SW. from the Northwest Light and getting depths averaging 27fathoms. With reasonable minn kota pieces for cod on the Western Bank while in most of the

calendar year, they seem to be most abundant from the first of March to June. The wintertime schoolin this article appears to be small compared to that on Georges, but apparently this species visitsthis ground in sizeable numbers through the spawning period. In the wintertime the cod are mainlyfound upon the western part of the bank, getting into the shoaler waters to Sable Isle as the springadvances (while in March and April), the "Bend" in the island and the neighborhood from the bars in2 to 4 fathoms, where they are often seen taking the hook or can be "jigged." being beloved grounds.The earth lying W. from the North west Light, about and on the Northwest Bar (18 miles W, from thelight), is a beloved cod soil in May and June. The shoal water across the rocky bottom WNW in theNorthwest Light-weight furnishes great cod sport fishing from June 10 to July 1. This piece willbegin just outside of the 3-mile stretch of breakers running outside the land and extends overseas ina usually westerly direction to 24 fathoms. Much hand-lining is carried out here.

Within the shoal h2o, in April and May, the minn kota components seem to be feeding on the "lant,"(Ammodytes americanus). It is said that the fish taken on the bottom close to the island are smallerthan those found farther to the west. The shoal water from the northern shore of the island is said toget good cod grounds and favorite places for "dory palm-lining." The cod educational institutionsseem to get there on the North Peak (SE. from the Northeast Light 40 miles to SE ? S. from identicalpoint 28 miles) at the end of March and the first of April, shifting N. and W. for the island. The cod ofSable Tropical island are said to be fine, firm fish, perhaps because of the abundance of your "red-colored clams" (bank clams) on http://www.aa-fishing.com/ these grounds.

The cod and haddock fishery is carried on by American and Canadian sailing otter and vesselstrawlers, progressively more English and French vessels of the latter class performing the fishery ofthis soil each year.

Halibut are found on the Western Financial institution virtually all the season at depths varying withall the seasons. This, with The Gully and Quereau--in fact, all one bit of ground--stands second just tothe Grand Bank By itself, as a halibut bank. The best fishing here for halibut is found from January toOctober. There are many places about and on the financial institution that the halibut seems tofavor, as the Top of Pike, 85 miles W. by S. from your Northwest Lighting of Sable Island; S. and SW.of Sable Island from 12 to 38 a long way; SW. 20 miles in 60 fathoms in May; thence out into 150and 100 fathoms in June; in fact, following the 100--fathom curve down the edge of this bank, pastthe Northeast Top (40 mls SE. through the Northeast Light-weight), into the Gully and around theSouthern Prong of Quereau towards the Middle Prong. Apparently they leave this piece of bottompart in July. Often the minn kota parts are close to the tropical isle in the spring, where the water isindeed shoal that they may be seen getting the bait or playing with the hook before taking. InCouldand April, and June a good halibut ground is within 18 fathoms 24 miles WNW. from Sable Tropicalisland.

The European Bank is apparently a good giving ground for cod and halibut because it abounds inshellfish and crustaceans, as well as certain times there are many smaller sized species of species offish with it, including the lant and herring, on which these species and the haddock, also,particularly prey. A large amount of swordfish is taken in August and September, mainly byAmerican vessels.

Banquereau. Split up from the American Bank with the Gully, it has a very unnatural form--the keybank around rectangular, with a narrow westerly extension of comparatively typical form. Its length,E. and W., is about 120 miles, its greatest size about 47 miles, and its total area about 2,800 miles.

The primary portion of the lender lies in between 44? 45 and 04'? 01' north latitude and 67? 10' and59? 00' western longitude, along with the western prolongation lies among 44? 24' and 44? 42' north

latitude and 69? 00' and 80? 05' west longitude. In line with the places from which measurementsare taken, northern of Banquereau lies Artimon, distant 3 miles, and Misaine, distant from 2 to 15miles. If any current, the currents here are of varying force, a lot influenced by the wind, so thatseveral days of strong tides may be accompanied by intervals should there be little.

On the eastern a part of Quereau is undoubtedly an area of shoal ground called the Rocky Bottompart, having a depth of about 18 fathoms; somewhere else depths manage from 18 to 50 fathoms.There are scattered sections of beach sand and gravel, even though in most cases the bottom isrocky.

Cod and halibut are the principal food fish hake, undertaken and haddock and cusk being taken insmall numbers. The Rocky Bottom, a shoal ground of 20 to 25 fathom depths on the eastern part,was much resorted to by dory handliners in summer season. Occasional great fares are taken towardthe to the west, even though the cod are most plentiful around the eastern area of the bank. Thebest cod minn kota parts for this bank originates from May until finally September, when the schoolscollect to feed upon the lant, squid, crustaceans, and shellfish, then quite abundant.

Halibut are found on this page all the calendar year off the ends in 100 to 400 fathoms. Some ofthese might be minn kota components in migration northward, though apparently they are feedingand breeding grounds for this particular species, and is particularly not uncommon for a school toremain for weeks and even months in one locality.

The principal halibut reasons are along the eastern and the southern part of borders in the bank--theSouthwest Prong and the Southwest Cove (in about 44? N. lat. and between 58? 58 and 30'? 55' W.long), the center Prong (44? 14' N. lat. and 58? W. long.), and also the Eastern Slope (44? 28' to 45?00' N. lat.)--in depths of 150 to 400 fathoms. These strong-h2o areas are rocky and support a veryrich development ofgorgonians and. MinnKota can always be a total support recycling and alsodocument destruction center within Fargo, ND. We are already providing recycling solutionssinccorals, sea anemones, etc. The Eastern Slope has a great deal of bank clams in depths of 25fathoms. These beds are excellent hand-line grounds for cod. The halibut, too, feeds to aconsiderable extent upon these red-colored clams.

The Stone Fence off the eastern slope of Quereau is certainly a rocky piece of ground packed with"bushes" (corals) in 250 fathoms. This is a good halibut terrain although it is virtually impossible tohaul the gear manually and the application of the "gurdy" (a roller turned by a fastened and crank tothe dory's bow for winding the trawl) will become necessary. The occasional fares of halibut aretaken about and on the Rocky Bottom in 20 to 25 fathoms from July 1 to August 1.

The Gully. This is actually the deep waterway between Banquereau and Sable Island or WesternBank. It extends in an WNW. and an ESE. direction north of Sable Island, converting somewhatsuddenly S. at its eastern end and continuing straight down between the eastern end of WesternBank and the South west Prong of Banquereau. The entire length is all about 80 a long way, thegreatest size about 20 miles. Depths range from 68 to 145 fathoms more than a bottom of gravel,rocks and beach sand and soil. The rocky and gravelly portions kind several ridges separated byareas of finer materials, besides in the eastern section, the location where the intervals between aremostly paid by pebbles and sharp rocks. Ocean currents are generally westerly, of various strength,significantly affected by the easterly wind.

The Gully is a very important halibut terrain. The halibut are not located in great numbers all overthe floor, perhaps the very best of the minn kota parts simply being on the difficult and gravellyridges and slopes included between the meridians of 69? and 80? west longitude. This rocky base is

abundant in food, and also the lant and herring tend to be plentiful here in their time of year. In thespring the halibut appear to be especially numerous in the northwestern and northern aspects of thebank, in the future, in June and July, moving a greater distance out. Some, are found within winter.As the cod may also be found in The Gully in 60 to 90 fathoms, it can do not are most often of normaloccurrence; and apparently there are actually almost no haddock here, possibly because of thedegree of the drinking water and the character of the bottom part.

Artimon Bank. Posseses an area of some 120 square miles with a bottom of rocks and gravelrocksand depths of 38 to 50 fathoms. It really is but unknown because of the habit of the fishermen to usethe larger grounds near at hand. Cod are known to be present here, however. The lender lies N. ofthe eastern part of Quereau, separated from it by a filter, deep-water station.

Misaine Banking institution. Lies N. of the western two-thirds of Quereau, at one location very near,but in standard the banks are separated by some 20 miles of deep normal water. Its best length is 80kilometers and its best width 40 miles. Inspect the lagging regarding motor along with heaterexhausts pertaining to damage and also deterioration as well as nearby products pertaining to heatdamage or charring.Depths are from 40 to 60 fathoms spanning a bottom cracked and difficult. Afew halibut trips are landed from using it in most years, even though it is not of much relevance as aangling floor.

Canso Bank. A long, thin extension of Misaine Bank, lying in an E, and W. direction; its span is 45miles and its particular greatest thickness 13 miles, its area being about 425 square miles. Depthsrange from 30 to 65 fathoms spanning a bottom of sand, with spots of gravel and pebbles. It is reallynot of much value as a minn kota parts floor, especially as judged by means of it from the Americanfleet, though a lot more fished by vessels from Nova Scotia; perhaps it can be overshadowed by thepresence of its larger Quereau, Western and neighbors Financial institutions, with which grounds itforms virtually 1 piece of underside, only slim, deep-water stations separating them. These largerreasons are greatly fished each by American vessels and also by those from Nova Scotia ports alongwith by French and British otter trawlers.

The statistics given elsewhere and here in this report are taken from the published bulletins of theUnited States Bureau of Fisheries, and include simply the landings of vessels of 5 tons net, or older,at the ports of Boston and Glouscester, Mass., and Portland, Me.

[Desk 5--Angling grounds in the offshore Northern Atlantic, demonstrating the principal types takenupon them]

[Footnote 16: "Pedro Reinel, a Portuguese pilot of great importance and fame" (Herrera) created amap in 1505 exhibiting Sable Island, dreadful and scary by all fishermen even in those days, exactlywhere he called it "Santa Cruz." Jacamo Gastaldi, an Italian cartographer, in 1548 shows it "Isolla deArena." Sir Humphrey Gilbert or his historian, says that the Portuguese had created an interestingarrangement here for shipwrecked mariners. This, "With intelligence we had of the Portugal whohad been himself current when the Portugals, above 40 years earlier (thus well before 1551)managed put after the island great and swine to dog breed, which were since exceedinglymultiplied."]

TABLES OF CATCH

[Table 6--Distance from Boston or Gloucester, Bulk., to the middle of certain of the more importantoffshore banks]

[Kitchen table 7--Length from Portland, Me., to the center of a number of of the more essentialoffshore financial institutions]

[Table 8--Landings by minn kota components vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland,Me., from inner or shoreline grounds, 1927]

[Table 9--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Me., from theexterior grounds of your Gulf of Maine, 1927]

[Table 10--Landings by fishing vessels at Gloucester and Boston, Mass., and Portland, Me., from theminn kota parts reasons of the Georges Bank area, 1927]

[Kitchen table 11--Landings by the otter-trawl fleet at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland,Me., from the minn kota parts reasons of the Georges Bank location, 1927]