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Page 44
Cod are present here the year around, perhaps the best fishing taking
place in May and June, when the fish are found in about 40 fathoms They
go into deeper water, about 60 fathoms, in August and into 100 fathoms as
the cold weather advances. This Seal Island ground may be considered
essentially as a feeding ground for the cod, which seem to appear here
after the spawning season is over, to fatten upon the crabs and mollusks
living on the bottom and on the herring and other small fish that swim
back and forth In the tide rips.
Haddock are also present all the year, the schools being most abundant
and the number greatest in January and February, when the fish are in
about 50 to 60 fathoms. Apparently they come into depths of from 27 to
30 fathoms in March and April for spawning.
Cusk are present here during most of the year in 80 fathoms on the hard
bottom. Pollock are few on this ground at any time of the year. This
species, together with herring and mackerel, are abundant on the "shore
soundings" of Seal Island Ground, whence, following the abundant food
furnished by the smaller fish, they range a short distance in to the Bay
of Fundy. Many mackerel are taken in the traps in the vicinity of
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, which seems to mark the limit of their
penetration in any considerable schools on the western shore of Nova
Scotia.
What is apparently a gradually deepening extension of Seal Island Ground
is found about 65 miles SSE. from Mount Desert Rock and 60 miles W. from
Seal Island. There seems to be no distinguishing name for this area.
The depths here are from 70 to 100 fathoms over a broken bottom of mud,
gravel, and in places fine sand. The ground falls off rapidly on all
sides except toward Seal Island and the Nova Scotia coast, leaving an
area at its end of somewhat indeterminate length, perhaps 18 or 20,
miles, and having a distance across of about 8 miles at its widest part.
Apparently there is no reason why this should not be an all-the-year
fishing ground, but it seems not to be visited much in the winter. It
furnishes, however, a very good summer handline fishery for cod at
dogfish time, and in the spring months it abounds in cod, cusk, and
hake, all fish of large size.
Roseway Bank. This bank lies N. of the western part of La Have and SE.
of Shelbourne Light, Nova Scotia: 31 miles SSE. from the whistling buoy
off Lockport, Nova Scotia, to the southeastern edge. It is oblong in
shape and of small extent--about 270 square geographical miles. Its
greatest length is 21 miles and its greatest breadth 15 miles. It
extends from 43� 12' to 43� 33' north latitude, and from 64� 25' to 64�
52' west longitude and at the northwest corner is connected with the
shore limit of 60 fathoms by a narrow neck. Depths are from 33 to 48
fathoms. The bottom is of sand, gravel, and rocks; on the Northeast Peak
the bottom is of yellow mud and gravel.
Currents in this region are not nearly so strong as about Cape Sable and
Browns Bank, their general direction being WSW. and ENE the westerly
much the stronger, though the force and direction of both are much
influenced by the winds.
The principal fish taken here are cod, haddock, and cusk, but hake,
pollock and halibut occur, the best fishing months being from May to
October, when the bank is resorted to by craft from western Nova Scotia.
A few New England craft also fish here.
La Have Bank. Situated eastward of Browns Bank and S. and E. of
Roseway Bank. It extends from 42� 34' to 43� 26' north 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, of which the eastern (La Have Bank proper) extends N and S. 39
miles and the western portion nearly E. and W. about 35 miles. The total
area of the bank is about 1,200 miles.
The bottom is largely coarse gravel, pebbles, and rock, with smaller
areas of sand distributed here and there. Depths run from 40 to 50
fathoms. The general set of the currents is to the westward, but this is
much influenced by the force and direction of the wind and is generally
quite strong during easterly blows.
The principal fishing upon this bank in the past has been for cod and
haddock: and while former reports, (1881) speak of this as having once
been a favorite fishing ground for halibut and state that it was not at
time of much importance in that fishery, the figures for this ground for
the year 1923 show the halibut catch to have been third in volume and
first in value of the species taken there. In fact, the catch of halibut
here makes quite an imposing figure when the comparatively small size of
the ground is considered.
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