Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine

Shoal Ground, The Shoal Ground, stretching easterly from Thacher Island, has depths from 20 to 30 fathoms over a bottom of sand and gravel. This area is about 15 miles long by 5 miles wide and is an important pollock ground in their spawning time as well as a good fall cod-fishing ground.

It is about 12 miles E. by N. from Thacher Island to its center and 21 miles SE. by S. from the Isle of Shoals.

Flounder draggers also operate here on the shoal ground and all around Thacher Island but mostly to eastward & southeastward.