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Artimon Bank. Has an area of some 120 square miles with a bottom of
gravel and rocks and depths of 38 to 50 fathoms. It is but little known
because of the tendency of the fishermen to use the larger grounds close
at hand. Cod are known to be present here, however. The bank lies N. of
the eastern part of Quereau, separated from it by a narrow, deep-water
channel.
Misaine Bank. Lies N. of the western two-thirds of Quereau, at one
place very near, but in general the banks are separated by some 20 miles
of deep water. Its greatest length is 80 miles and its greatest width 40
miles. Depths are from 40 to 60 fathoms over a bottom broken and rocky.
It is not of much importance as a fishing ground, although a few halibut
trips are landed from it in most years.
Canso Bank. A long, narrow extension of Misaine Bank, lying in an E,
and W. direction; its length is 45 miles and its greatest width 13
miles, its area being about 425 square miles. Depths range from 30 to 65
fathoms over a bottom of sand, with spots of gravel and pebbles. It is
not of much importance as a fishing ground, especially as judged by the
use of it by the American fleet, though more fished by vessels from Nova
Scotia; perhaps it is overshadowed by the presence of its larger
neighbors, Western and Quereau Banks, with which grounds it forms
virtually one piece of bottom, only narrow, deep-water channels
separating them. These larger grounds are heavily fished both by
American vessels and by those from Nova Scotia ports as well as by
French and English otter trawlers.
The statistics given here and elsewhere in this report are taken from
the published bulletins of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, and
include only the landings of vessels of 5 tons net, or over, at the
ports of Boston and Glouscester, Mass., and Portland, Me.
[Table 5--Fishing grounds of the offshore North Atlantic, showing
the principal species taken upon them]
[Footnote 16: "Pedro Reinel, a Portuguese pilot of much fame" (Herrera)
made a map in 1505 showing Sable Island, feared and dreaded by all
fishermen even in those days, where he called it "Santa Cruz." Jacamo
Gastaldi, an Italian cartographer, in 1548 shows it "Isolla de Arena."
Sir Humphrey Gilbert or his historian, says that the Portuguese had
made an interesting settlement here for shipwrecked mariners. This,
"Upon intelligence we had of a Portugal who was himself present when
the Portugals, above thirty years past (thus before 1551) did put upon
the island neat and swine to breed, which were since exceedingly
multiplied."]
TABLES OF CATCH
[Table 6--Distance from Boston or Gloucester, Mass., to the center
of certain of the more important offshore banks]
[Table 7--Distance from Portland, Me., to the center of certain of the
more important offshore banks]
[Table 8--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from inner or shore grounds, 1927]
[Table 9--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from the outer grounds of the Gulf of Maine, 1927]
[Table 10--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from the fishing grounds of the Georges Bank area,
1927]
[Table 11--Landings by the otter-trawl fleet at Boston and Gloucester,
Mass., and Portland, Me., from the fishing grounds of the Georges Bank
area, 1927]
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