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Rose and Crown Shoal. This is a small piece of ground 7 miles ESE.
from Sankaty Head. The fishing area lies between the Round Shoal and
Rose and Crown buoys, making a stretch perhaps 6 miles long by 1�
miles wide. Sometimes good fishing may be had from 6 to 12 mile, from
Great Round Shoal buoy. As elsewhere on and about these shoals, the cod
is the principal species caught, pollock being next in importance, and a
few haddock.
Nantucket Shoals, Madisons Spot. SSE. 13 miles front Round Shoal buoy,
has 9 fathoms over a smooth hard bottom of sand. It is about 3 miles
long, from SE. to NW. by 1� miles wide. This is a flounder ground for
the greater part of the year and a good cod ground in October and
November. As is the rule elsewhere in this neighborhood, tides are heavy
over this ground.
Nantucket Shoal--Great Rip. Lies 13 miles E. by S. � S. from
Sankaty Head Light. Nantucket. It is 5 miles long from N, to S. and 3
miles broad. Over this area the depths are from 9 to 18 feet, but the
fishing is done mainly around the edges in 6 to 12 fathoms where the
bottom is gravel and shells covered with sponges and kelp. Here, as on
all these shoals, the greater part of the fishing is done by that method
known as "rip fishing." Cod are taken chiefly by hand-lining in May.
June, July, and August.
Nantucket Shoals; Davis Bank; Crab Bank. This is an irregular piece of
bottom lying in a generally ENE. and WSW direction at about 20 miles
distance ESE from Sankaty Head. It is perhaps 14 miles long by 5 miles
wide at its broadest. Depths upon it are from 4 to 9 fathoms, with
soundings of 12 to 18 about it, over a bottom of sand and broken shells.
Nantucket Shoals Fishing Rip is an elongate bank lying 29 miles SE. from
Sankaty Head Light. It is 10 miles long in a NE and SW direction and
Southeast Rip (Nantucket Shoals) lies SE. from Sankaty Head 35 miles. It
has depths from 8 to 10 fathoms over an area about 10 miles long by 2
miles wide, with from 22 to 30 fathoms over the sandy bottom around it.
Phelps Bank. This bank lies 38 miles SE, � S. from Sankaty Head Light
and agrees more or less in size, shape, trend, and character of the
bottom with Fishing Rip. Depths are from 10 to 17 fathoms. On the
southeast edge of this lies Rogers Fishing Ground, with 24 to 40 fathoms
over fine gray sand. It is perhaps mainly a haddock ground.
Nantucket Shoals (South Shoal). This name is applied to the fishing
ground about Nantucket Lightship, which marks the Old South Shoal and
the New South Shoal, the two making a continuous reef of irregular form
some 10 to 12 miles in length and from 1 to 3 miles wide. The northern
end of this lies about 12 miles S. by E. from Sankaty Head (the Old
South Shoal), and the southern extremity of the New South Shoal reaches
to about 20 miles S. � E. from the same point. The fishing ground lies
mostly to the S. of these shoals and about the lightship, where otter
trawling is carried on in all directions from the ship except from N. to
NE., where lie the vessels sunk by the German submarine in the late war.
This fishery is also carried on WNW. from the ship for a distance of 40
miles, even into 7 fathom depths near Muskeget Inlet.
Elsewhere depths average from 13 to 18 fathoms on the inner parts of the
grounds, whence they slope away gradually from the shore soundings into
50, 80, or even more on the outer edge, where the ground falls away
rapidly into the deeps. For the most part this area has a bottom of
sand, but there are small stretches of coarse gravel, broken shells,
pebbles, and a few muddy spots.
Within comparatively recent years this ground has been much used by the
otter trawlers, which type of craft has developed a productive fishery
here, which is being operated in steadily increasing volume and takes a
catch that is predominantly of haddock.
The proportion of cod taken here by these vessels is very small, even
smaller than that from other grounds fished by the otter-trawl method.
Pollock and hake, too, make a small item in the fares from the
neighborhood of the South Shoal. In the average otter-trawl fare haddock
makes up the greater part of the catch because, as a rule, this type of
gear is operated mostly on the smooth, sandy bottom which this species
prefers. The otter-trawl fishery here is at its best from early May
through June, July, and the first halt of August. Few trips are reported
from this ground at other seasons. Perhaps the haddock leaves the shoal
grounds here earlier than when it moves out of the same depths in The
Channel.
The early fishing for the swordfish generally takes place in this
vicinity, and in normal seasons mackerel are found here in abundance
from May 15 to August, and, as is the custom with this uncertain fish,
it may appear here again in the late fall.
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