during October and
November.

Cusk Ridge. It lies S. 1/2 E. 12 miles from Pumpkin Island, 3 1/2 to 4
miles long, NE. and SW., and 1/4 mile wide. This ground is somewhat
difficult to find. It has a bottom of black gravel and rocks with 30 to
60 fathoms of water over it. A "blistery" bottom that is a cod ground
the year around, the best of the fishing occurring in the spring months.
Hake are abundant in the fall, and cusk fishing is exceptionally good in
the deep water in June.

Potato Patch. Three miles WNW. from Monhegan. A round nubble about 14
mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over
it. Cusk and cod are taken on the shoal and hake from the muddy edges
about it.

The Apron. Four and one-half miles from Monhegan. Marks are the tripod
on Eastern Egg Rock over Franklin Island Light; Monhegan Light over the
middle of Manana. Its length is 5 miles and its width 3 miles. It is a
broken piece of ground with 10 to 45 fathoms. Cod are present the year
around and haddock all the year except for a few weeks in summer. Cusk
are here most of the year, but the season for pollock is September.

Henry Gallant Ridges. The inner one lies 16 1/2 miles S. by E. of
Monhegan Island, extending in a NNE. and SSW. direction, about 1 mile
long by 1/4 mile wide. The outer ridge lies about 1 1/4 miles farther from
the island on the same bearing as the first and paralleling it and
apparently is about the same size. The bottom on both shoals is of
gravel and black rocks with depths averaging 45 fathoms but rising from
the 80 and 90 fathoms of the surrounding muddy ground. Both these are
year-around cod grounds, the spring months, however, having The largest
school. Cusk also are abundant on both shoals in the spring.

Mosers Ledge, also known as Middle Ground. This piece of shoal ground
lies about midway between Monhegan Island and Pemaquid and has a
3-fathom shoal on the eastern part where the sea breaks in heavy
weather. This shoal, called Mosers Ledge, is broken and rocky but slopes
gradually to the SW., reaching 48 fathoms, with a bottom of gravel and
mud on the deepest part. The ground is about 2 miles long NE. and SW.
and about 1 mile wide. It is good ground for cod and haddock in the
spring and for herring in June and other top-schooling fish In their
season. Mackerel occur in late August and September. It is a lobster
ground the year around.

Johns Head Ground. About 4 miles SSE. from Pemaquid Point. De