3-mile

Updated: May 5, 2025

This piece begins just outside the 3-mile stretch of breakers running out from the land and extends offshore in a generally westerly direction to 24 fathoms. Much hand-lining is done here. It is said that the fish taken on the bottom close to the island are smaller than those found farther west.

Walter H. (Walter Herbert) Rich - Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine