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Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine

White Head Grounds Depths on the shoal (marks: the White Hub: Bring Budd cottage out by White Head, Black Head. and Allens Island touching) are 7 fathoms, thence to 20 fathoms on the edges about it. This ground extends NE. and SW., 2 miles long by 1/4 mile wide. The bottom is chiefly broken, of rocks, and with spots of coarse gravel and sand.

Fish and their seasons are as on Franklin Ground. [Franklin Ground: Cod and haddock are found here from April to June and pollock in summer. In summer and fall hake are taken by night fishing with hand line about the rocks in 20 to 30 fathoms on the broken ground. Fishing here is by hand-lining in summer and trawling in fall and winter. It is a lobster ground.]

Marks: Bring Black Head, White Head, and Gull Head in range on the east side of Monhegan Island