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A lobsterman who has fished this area for many years reported that from 

 abctit 1966 to 1974 there was no dragging in the dumping ground due to debris 

 on the bottom and a lack of local knowledge. In the last four years , draggers 

 vvi v;h heavy gear and rollers have found the area fishable. 



Other Fisheries . Before stocks declined regionally, northern shrimp were caught 

 in deeper muddy bottomed areas near the disposal sites in the winter. It is 

 the opinion of some draggermen that this fishery was extremely destructive to 

 populations of young finfish. 



Ocean quahogs were sampled at 5 stations within the southern half of the 

 Boston Light dumping ground by Riser and Jankowski (1974). It is unlikely that 

 a quahog fishery would develop close to the disposal site since stocks are 

 found closer to shore and there are possibilities of littering waste materials 

 on the bottom or of fishing in contaminated sediments. 



