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For the most part the bottom is rocky, but there are scattered patches of sand and gravel. Cod and halibut are the principal food fishes taken, hake, haddock, and cusk being taken in small numbers. The Rocky Bottom, a shoal ground of 20 to 25 fathom depths on the eastern part, was much resorted to by dory handliners in summer.
A long string you'd hang on better, but a short scope and you could get out faster in case you were dragging and going onto the shoals. What would you do, Captain Clancy? You never told me that, did you?" "Well, it would depend, too, though handliners generally calculate on hanging on, blow how it will.
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