8 NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES 



NOVA SCOTIA COAST. 



Passing to the outer coast of Newfoundland and the coast 

 Provinces, we find extensive inshore fishing grounds along 

 the entire region. The average width of this coast belt 

 is about eighteen miles, and it ranges in depth from 10 to 

 50 fathoms. Cod and halibut are scarce, but were formerly 

 taken by American vessels off Scatari and Flint Island. 

 The south coast of Nova Scotia is deeply serrated, affording 

 excellent harbors for boat-fishing. At numerous places 

 along the coast herring are abundant, and are taken for 

 bait to supply American and Provincial bank-fishermen. 

 Mackerel make their appearance on the southwest coast 

 of Nova Scotia the last of May. They follow the coast 

 eastward to Canso, where they turn north to enter the 

 Gulf either through the Strait of Canso or by Scatari and 

 the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island. 



BAY OP PUNDY. 



In the Bay of Fundy are extensive herring grounds. 

 Mackerel sometimes enter the bay, but few American ves- 

 sels now visit the region for them. The herring approach 

 Grand Manan in July and remain in the vicinity until 

 September. Later in the fall and winter other schools 

 of herring swarm in to the mainland about Campobello 

 Island and the waters between Point Lepreau, New Bruns- 

 wick, and Eastport, Maine. The fish are used for the sar- 

 dine trade, and for bait for bank fishing. The sardine 

 canning industry of this region is the most extensive and 

 valuable in the Western Hemisphere. The Pollock 

 Grounds to the north and west of Campobello Island, the 

 Mud Hake Grounds lying to the east, and the Wolves Had- 

 dock Grounds farther to the northeast, are visited by fisher- 

 men from eastern Maine and western New Brunswick for 

 pollock, hake and haddock. 



