Fishing Grounds of the Gulf 1 01

Walter H. Wealthy

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Title: Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine

Author: Walter H. Wealthy

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Fishing GROUNDS From The GULF OF MAINE [1]

by

WALTER H. RICH Agent, U . S . Bureau of Fisheries

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Introduction Acknowledgements Gulf of Maine Geographical and Historic Title Explanation Bay ofFundy Inner Grounds Outer Reasons Georges Region Offshore Banking institutions Furniture ofCatch, 1927 Maps Index to grounds

PREFACE TO THE 1994 EDITION

Fishing Reasons of the Gulf of Maine by Walter H. Wealthy first showed up in the United statesDivision of Business, Bureau of Fisheries, Document of the us Commissioner of Fisheries, for yourfinancial year 1929.

When Captain Robert McLellan of Boothbay Harbor died in 1981, the workers of the MaineDepartment of Marine Resources contributed cash to be used to buy books in his recollection, forthe Department's Fishermen's Collection. Captain McLellan's family was asked what purchases theymight recommend, and a top priority ended up being to in some way reprint this focus on thehttp://www.amazon.com/Minn-Kota/pages/2596629011 minn kota edge grounds. This was a bookwhich had been useful to Captain McLellan in his career, and one which his son, Captain RichardMcLellan, discovered still useful and valid.

Efforts from your employees from the Department of Marine Sources compensated to get this taskbegan; film to reproduce the web pages of the original textual content was contributed from theBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences; publishing costs were paid from the Department.

This is the hope from the Department along with its employees the fishermen of today will takeadvantage of the detailed information in this publication, and that they will remember CaptainRobert McLellan, a man who realized using books to improve his profession as a fisherman, whoknew how to discuss his knowledge with the scientific neighborhood, and who had been broadlyhighly regarded by fishermen and scientists as well.

Intro

Paralleling the northeastern coastline type of North America is situated a lengthy sequence offishing banking institutions--a number of plateaus and ridges rising from the ocean mattress to makecomparatively superficial soundings. From very early occasions these reasons have been recognizedto and visited by the adventurers from the countries of traditional western European countries--Portuguese, Basque, Frenchman, Northman, Breton and Spaniard and Englishman. For hundreds ofyears these fishing locations have played a big component in feeding the nations bordering on theTraditional western Ocean, and the creation of their sources has become a excellent factor in theinvestigation from the New Planet.

According to statistics collected by the Bureau of Fisheries.[2] these banks annually produce over400,000,000 pounds of fishery products, which are landed in the United States; and, according to O.E. Sette,[3] annually about one thousand,000,000 pounds of cod are taken on these bankinginstitutions and landed within the United Newfoundland, Canada, France and States and Portugal.

Evidently the earliest known and certainly the most substantial of those is the Great Financialinstitution of Newfoundland, so known as from time immemorial. From the Flemish Cover, in 44? 06'west longitude and 47? northern latitude, marking the easternmost reason for this great area,expands the Grand Financial institution westward and southwestward over about 600 kilometers ofduration. Thence, other reasons keep on the chain, passing along with the Eco-friendly Bank, St.Peters Bank, Western Bank (comprised of several pretty much connected grounds, such as MisaineFinancial institution, Banquereau, The Gully, and Sable Tropical island Financial institution); thencesouthwest via Emerald Sambro, Roseway and Bank La Have, Seal Island Ground, Browns Financialinstitution, and Georges Bank using its southwestern extension of Nantucket Shoals.

To any or all these is additional the long shelving region stretching from your coastline out to theadvantage of the continental plateau and stretching from the South Shoal off Nantucket to NewYork, making in all, from the eastern area of the Grand Financial institution to New York City Bay, arange of approximately 2,000 miles, an almost constant extent of most effective fishing floor.

Within the bowl which is the Gulf of Maine, the outer margin which is made by the shoaling from thedrinking water over the Seal Tropical island Grounds, Browns Bank, and Georges Bank, thissequence is further prolonged by an additional series of smaller grounds, as Grand Manan Financialinstitution, the German Financial institution, Jeffreys Financial institution, Cashes Bank, PlattsFinancial institution, Jeffreys Ledge, Fippenies Financial institution, Stellwagen or Middle Bank; andagain, lying down inside these, this fishing region is improved by a really large number of smallersized reasons and fishing areas located inside a really brief distance of the mainland.

Each one of these banking institutions are breeding places of the most valued of our own meals fish--the cod, pollock, cusk, hake and haddock and halibut--and every in the appropriate season furnishesminn kota edge floor where are used many other essential species of migratory and pelagic mealsfish as well as those known as right here. It really is probable that hardly any other minn kota edgearea equaling this in dimensions or in productivity exists anywhere else in the world, as well as thenumbers from the total catch extracted from it must show an enormous poundage along with a mostimposing sum representing the value of its fishery.

With the most distant of these grounds we shall not offer here, leaving them for later considerationwhen noting certain from the fishery operations most manifestation of them. Therefore, we mightdeal with of those well-identified areas that lay within or are alongside the Gulf of Maine, like theBay of Fundy, the interior Grounds (those close to the mainland), the External Grounds (those insidethe gulf), the Georges area, Seal off Tropical island Grounds, and Browns Bank, these developing theexternal border of the gulf; and also make mention of specific other people of these nearer overseas

banking institutions which are most carefully connected with the market fishery of the 3 principalfishing ports within 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: U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin No. 703]

[Footnote 3: United states Bureau of Fisheries Record No. 1034]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As to the charts, it has been the writer's endeavor, by consulting a large number of minn kota edgecaptains of long experience upon these grounds, to reduce the margin of inaccuracy as much aspossible. In case of conflict of the viewpoint, the greatest contract regarding the facts continues tobe accepted.

The grounds as driven are not meant to consist of any certain depth bend but are meant to displayspecific minn kota edge areas. It is known of course, that most varieties frequent the shallows andthe deep drinking water in the various seasons: also, that certain other species are found on thedeeper soundings throughout practically all the entire year. 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, thus.

A lot of these reasons have been explained before by G. Browne others and Goode, and in whichfeasible their work has been used as a grounds for the current paper, with any more details or eventhe noting of the changed problem from the reasons or difference in fishing techniques employed onthem which was obtainable.

Grateful acknowledgment is hereby designed to the many captains who decorated information that,made the sketching of the charts possible and also for the facts used in the descriptions from thefishing reasons.

With the offshore banking institutions, particularly with the Georges region and Browns Bank and toa specific extent, also, the traditional western part of the Internal Grounds, the writer hasexperienced a considerable individual acquaintance by which to pull.

For your geographical and historical data the writer has offered freely from various modern writers,who, in their turn, have drawn their details from more mature documents. Among these offered areHolmes's minn kota endura 30 United states Annals; Parkman's Pioneers of France within the NewWorld; Southgates Background of Scarburo; Abbott and Elwell's Background of Maine; Willis'sBackground of Maine; Sabine's Report on the Principal Fisheries of the United states Seas; Amedical history of the invention of the East Coastline of North America, by Dr. John G. Kohl, ofBremen, Germany; various chapters of Hakluyt's Voyages; the Journal of John Jocelyn, Gent.; andNew England Trials of the famous Captain John Smith.