Fishing Grounds of the Gulf 1 01

Walter H. Wealthy

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Minn Kota Edge Reasons OF THE GULF OF MAINE [1]

by

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

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Introduction Acknowledgements Gulf of Maine Geographic and Historic Title Description Bay ofFundy Internal Grounds External Reasons Georges Area Overseas Banks Tables of Catch, 1927 MapsIndex to reasons

PREFACE TO THE 1994 Version

Minn Kota Edge Reasons of the Gulf of Maine by Walter H. Wealthy initially appeared within theU.S. Division of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries, Document of the us Commissioner of Fisheries, foryour fiscal year 1929.

When Captain Robert McLellan of Boothbay Harbor died in 1981, the employees from the MaineDivision of Marine Sources offered money to be used to purchase books within his recollection, forthe Department's Fishermen's Collection. Captain McLellan's family was asked what buys theywould recommend, along with a main concern was to somehow reprint this work on the minn kotaedge reasons. It was a book that had been helpful to Captain McLellan within his profession, andsomething which his son, Captain Richard McLellan, discovered nevertheless valid and useful.

Contributions from your employees of the Division of Sea Sources paid to get this task began; movieto reproduce the web pages of the original text was donated by the minn kota endura 55 BigelowLaboratory for Ocean Sciences; printing costs were compensated by the Division.

It is the hope of the Division and its employees the anglers nowadays will take advantage of thedetailed information in this newsletter, and that they will keep in mind Captain Robert McLellan, aguy who knew using publications to improve his profession as a angler, who realized how to sharehis knowledge using the scientific community, and who was widely highly regarded by scientists andfishermen alike.

Intro

Paralleling the northeastern coast type of North America lies a lengthy sequence of fishing bankinginstitutions--a number of plateaus and ridges rising from the sea mattress to create comparativelysuperficial soundings. From very early times these reasons have been recognized to and visited bythe adventurers from the countries of traditional western European countries--Spaniard, Northman,Breton, Portuguese, Frenchman and Basque and Englishman. For hundreds of years these fishinglocations have performed a big part in feeding the nations bordering upon the Traditional westernSea, and the creation of their sources has become a excellent element in the exploration of the NewPlanet.

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] yearly about 1,000,000,000 lbs of cod are taken on these banking institutions and landedin the United Canada, States, Newfoundland and France and Portugal.

Apparently the very first recognized and definitely by far the most substantial of these is the GreatBank of Newfoundland, so named from time immemorial. From your Flemish Cover, in 44? 06' westlongitude and 47? northern latitude, marking the easternmost point of this excellent area, expandsthe Grand Financial institution westward and southwestward over about 600 miles of length.Thence, other reasons keep on the sequence, moving along with the Eco-friendly Bank, Saint. PetersBank, Western Bank (made up of a number of pretty much linked grounds, like Misaine Bank,Banquereau, The Gully, and Sable Tropical island Financial institution); thence south west throughEmerald Roseway, Bank and Sambro La Have, Seal Island Floor, Browns Financial institution, andGeorges Bank using its southwestern extension of Nantucket Shoals.

To all these is additional the lengthy shelving region extending from your coastline to the advantagefrom the continental plateau and stretching out from your South Shoal off Nantucket to New YorkCity, creating in every, from the eastern area of the Lavish Bank to New York City Bay, a range ofapproximately 2,000 kilometers, an almost continuous extent of many productive fishing ground.

Within the bowl that is the Gulf of Maine, the outer border which is made by the shoaling from thedrinking water over the Seal off Island Reasons, Browns Bank, and Georges Bank, this chain isfurther prolonged by an additional number of smaller sized reasons, as Grand Manan Bank, theGerman Financial institution, Jeffreys Financial institution, Cashes Financial institution, PlattsFinancial institution, Jeffreys Ledge, Fippenies Financial institution, Stellwagen or Middle Bank; andonce again, lying within these, this minn kota edge region is improved by a very great number ofsmaller sized grounds and fishing areas located within a really brief range from the mainland.

All these banking institutions are breeding locations of the very most highly valued of our meals fish--the cusk, cod, pollock, haddock and hake and halibut--and every in its proper period furnishes minnkota edge ground where are used many other essential species of migratory and pelagic food fish inaddition to these named right here. It really is probable that hardly any other fishing region equalingthis in dimensions or perhaps in productivity exists elsewhere on the planet, as well as the figures ofthe complete catch taken from it must show an enormous poundage along with a most imposingamount which represents the value of its fishery.

With the most distant of these reasons we shall not offer right here, departing them for later onconcern when noting certain of the fishery procedures most manifestation of them. Thus, we maytreat of those properly-defined locations that lie inside or are adjacent to the Gulf of Maine, such asthe Bay of Fundy, the Inner Reasons (these near to the mainland), the Outer Reasons (those withinthe gulf), the Georges region, Seal Island Grounds, and Browns Financial institution, thesedeveloping the external margin of the gulf; and also make mention of specific others of these neareroverseas banking institutions that are most closely connected with the market fishery from the threeprimary minn kota edge ports 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. Submitted for newsletter Jan 18,1929.]

[Footnote 2: United states Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin No. 703]

[Footnote 3: United states 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 the event of clash of the opinion, the best contract as to the details continues to beapproved.

The grounds as driven are not meant to consist of any certain depth curve but are meant to displayspecific minn kota edge locations. It really is recognized of course, that many varieties frequent theshallows and the deep http://www.minnkotamotors.com/products/trolling_motors.aspx water at thedifferent seasons: also, that certain other species are found on the much deeper soundings duringvirtually all the year. If a given area appears as a larger ground than is shown upon other chartsmade for navigating purposes, often this is because we have included in it a cusk ground or a hakebottom lying adjacent to the shoal as charted, thus.

A large number of these reasons have already been explained prior to by G. Browne Goode andothers, and where feasible their function has been used as a grounds for the current paper, with anyfurther information or the mentioning of the changed problem from the reasons or difference infishing techniques utilized on them that was accessible.

Thankful acknowledgment is hereby made to the many captains who decorated information that,created the drawing from the charts feasible and also for the facts utilized in the descriptions fromthe minn kota edge reasons.

With the overseas banking institutions, especially with the Georges area and Browns Bank and alsoto a specific extent, also, the western portion of the Inner Reasons, the author has experienced aconsiderable individual acquaintance from which to draw.

For your historical and geographical data the author has quoted easily from various contemporarywriters, who, within their turn, have driven their details from older records. Amongst those offeredare Holmes's United states Annals; Parkman's Pioneers of France within the New Planet; SouthgatesHistory of Scarburo; Abbott and Elwell's History of Maine; Willis's Background of Maine; Sabine'sReport around the Primary Fisheries from the American Seas; A medical history of the inventionfrom the East Coast of North America, by Dr. John G. Kohl, of Bremen, Germany; various chapters ofHakluyt's Voyages; the Diary of John Jocelyn, Gent.; and New Britain Trials of the famous CaptainJohn Smith.