Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
The Garden This is a broken piece of ground lying outside The Elbow and Eagle Island. It runs NNE. and SSW., is about 2 miles long by I mile wide. and has depths running from 35 to 60 fathoms.
This is a fall ground for hand-line fishing for cod. while haddock, cod. and cusk are found here in the spring. Hake are taken in May and June on the mud about the edges.
Marks: Halfway Rock Light on the big field of Chebeague Island; Eagle Island Woods on the woods in the Eastern Bay