Fishing Grounds of the Gulf 1 01

Walter H. Wealthy

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Name: Minn Kota Edge Reasons from the Gulf of Maine

Writer: Walter H. Wealthy

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Fishing GROUNDS From The GULF OF MAINE [1]

by

WALTER H. Wealthy Representative, U . S . Bureau of Fisheries

CONTENTS

Introduction Acknowledgements Gulf of Maine Geographic and Historical Name Description Bay ofFundy Internal Reasons Outer Grounds Georges Region Overseas Banks Tables of Capture, 1927Charts Directory to reasons

PREFACE Towards The 1994 Version

Minn Kota Edge Grounds from the Gulf of Maine by Walter H. Wealthy first appeared in the Unitedstates Division of Business, Bureau of Fisheries, Report of the United States Commissioner ofFisheries, for the fiscal calendar year 1929.

When Captain Robert McLellan of Boothbay Harbor died in 1981, the employees from the MaineDepartment of Sea Sources contributed money to be utilized to purchase publications within hisrecollection, for your Department's Fishermen's Library. Captain McLellan's family members wasrequested what purchases they would recommend, and a main concern ended up being to somehowreprint this focus on the fishing reasons. It was a book that had been helpful to Captain McLellan inhis profession, and one which his child, Captain Richard McLellan, discovered nevertheless valid anduseful.

Efforts from your employees from the Department of Marine Resources compensated to obtain thisproject began; film to reproduce the pages from the initial text was donated by the Bigelow Lab forOcean Sciences; printing costs were compensated from the Department.

This is the hope from the Division and its employees that the anglers nowadays will benefit from thedetailed information in this publication, and that they will remember Captain Robert McLellan, aman who knew how to use books to improve his profession being a fisherman, who realized how youcan discuss his information using the scientific neighborhood, and who had been widely highlyregarded by scientists and fishermen alike.

Intro

Paralleling the northeastern coast line of The United States is situated a long sequence of fishingbanks--a series of plateaus and ridges rising from your ocean mattress to create comparativelysuperficial soundings. From really early occasions these grounds have already been recognized toand visited by the adventurers of the nations of traditional western Europe--Breton, Spaniard,Basque, Frenchman, Portuguese and Northman and Englishman. For hundreds of years these fishingareas have performed a large component in giving the nations bordering on the Western Ocean, and

the development of their sources has been a great element in 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 over400. E. Sette,[3] yearly about 1,000,000,000 lbs of cod are taken on these banking institutions andlanded within the United Canada, Newfoundland, France and States and Portugal.

Evidently the very first known and definitely the most extensive of those is definitely the ExcellentBank of Newfoundland, so known as minn kota endura 40 from time immemorial. From your FlemishCap, in 44? 06' west longitude and 47? northern latitude, marking the easternmost reason for thisexcellent region, extends the Grand Bank westward and southwestward over about 600 kilometers ofduration. Thence, other reasons continue the chain, passing together through the Eco-friendly Bank,Saint. Peters Bank, Western Financial institution (made up of a number of pretty much connectedgrounds, such as Misaine Financial institution, Banquereau, The Gully, and Sable Tropical islandBank); thence southwest through Emerald Sambro, Bank and Roseway La Have, Seal Tropical islandGround, Browns Bank, and Georges Bank with its southwestern extension of Nantucket Shoals.

To all these is additional the long shelving area extending from your coast to the edge of thecontinental plateau and stretching out from the Southern Shoal off Nantucket to New York City,creating in all, from the eastern area of the Lavish Financial institution to New York City Bay, adistance of about 2,000 miles, a nearly continuous extent of most productive minn kota edge floor.

Within the bowl which is the Gulf of Maine, the outer border of which is created by the shoaling fromthe water over the Seal Tropical island Grounds, Browns Bank, and Georges Bank, this sequence isadditional extended by an additional number of smaller sized reasons, as Grand Manan Bank, theGerman Financial institution, Jeffreys Financial institution, Cashes Financial institution, Platts Bank,Jeffreys Ledge, Fippenies Bank, Stellwagen or Middle Bank; and again, lying within these, this minnkota edge area is improved by a really large number of smaller grounds and minn kota edge areaslocated inside a really short distance of the mainland.

All these banking institutions are breeding places of the very most valued of our own food fish--thecod, haddock, hake, cusk and pollock and halibut--and every in its proper period furnishes minn kotaedge ground in which are taken many other essential species of migratory and pelagic meals fish aswell as these named here. It is possible that no other minn kota edge region equaling this indimensions or perhaps in productivity is present elsewhere in the world, and the numbers of thecomplete capture taken from it must display a massive poundage and a most imposing sum whichrepresents the need for its fishery.

Using the most faraway of these reasons we shall not offer right here, departing them for laterconsideration when noting certain from the fishery procedures most characteristic of them. Thus, wemight treat of those properly-defined areas that lie inside or are adjacent to the Gulf of Maine, suchas the Bay of Fundy, the Inner Grounds (those close to the mainland), the Outer Reasons (theseinside the gulf), the Georges region, Seal Island Grounds, and Browns Bank, these forming the outermargin of the gulf; and also make mention of specific other people of those nearer overseas bankswhich are most carefully connected with the market fishery of the three primary minn kota edgeplug-ins inside the Gulf of Maine.

[Footnote 1: First, published as Appendix III to the Report of the US Commissioner of Fisheries for1929. Bureau of Fisheries Doc# 1059. Presented for newsletter 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 minn kota edge captains of longexperience upon these grounds, to reduce the margin of inaccuracy as much as possible, as to thecharts. In case of clash of their opinion, the greatest agreement regarding the details continues to beapproved.

The reasons as drawn usually are not designed to include any definite depth bend but are designedto display certain minn kota edge areas. It is known of course, that most species frequent theshallows as well as the strong water in the various months: also, that certain other species are foundon the deeper soundings during virtually all the entire year. Thus, if a given area appears as a largerground than is shown upon other charts made for navigating purposes, often this is because we haveincluded in it a cusk ground or a hake bottom lying adjacent to the shoal as charted.

A large number of these grounds have already been explained before by G. Browne Goode andothers, and where feasible their work has been used as a grounds for the present paper, with anymore details or even the mentioning of the changed problem from the reasons or distinction in minnkota edge methods employed upon them which was accessible.

Thankful acknowledgment is hereby made to the numerous captains who furnished details that,made the sketching of the charts possible and for the facts utilized in the information from thefishing grounds.

Using the offshore banking institutions, especially with the Georges area and Browns Bank and alsoto a certain degree, also, the traditional western portion of the Inner Reasons, the writer hasexperienced a substantial individual acquaintance from which to pull.

For the historical and geographical information the writer has quoted freely from differentcontemporary authors, who, in their transform, have driven their details from older records.Amongst these offered are Holmes's United states Annals; Parkman's Innovators of France in theNew Planet; Southgates History of Scarburo; Abbott and Elwell's Background of Maine; Willis'sHistory of Maine; Sabine's Report on the Primary Fisheries from the United states Seas; A medicalhistory of the Discovery from the Eastern Coast of The United States, by Doctor. John G. Kohl, ofBremen, Germany; different chapters of Hakluyt's Voyages; the Diary of John Jocelyn, Gent.; andNew Britain Trials of the famous Captain John Smith.