45-fathom

Updated: May 19, 2025

This smaller ridge has a 45-fathom shoal of rocks on the western end, deepening the water, like the other, to the eastward to 75 and 80 fathoms over a broken rocky bottom and 90 fathoms on hard mud. This is an all-the-year cusk ground. A few cod are present all the year. but this species is most abundant here and on the other ridge in the spring and through June.

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