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Coastal Banks and Inshore Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Bay of Fundy
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Coastal Banks and Inshore Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Monhegan to Petit Manan
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Coastal Banks and Inshore Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Monhegan to Cape Cod
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Coastal Banks and Inshore Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Petit Manan to Seal Island
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Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine The Georges Area
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Footnote 2 : U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin No. 703 (return)Note 2 · Footnote 3 : U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 1034 (return)Note 3 · Footnote 4 : "All that parte, purport and porcion of the Mayne Land of New England, we doe name, ordeyne and appoynt shall forever hereafterNote 4 · Footnote 5 : Edinburgh Encyclopedia, Philadelphia edition, by Thomas Parker, Vol. XVIII, p. 263. (return)Note 5 · Footnote 6 : William Strachey (1609), speaking particularly of Casco Bay, but the words equally applicable to almost any stretch of the MainNote 6 · Footnote 7 : This, the most striking cape of the Atlantic coast line, made a very prominent landmark for all the early ocean voyagers approaNote 7 · Footnote 8 : Cape Sable, at the southern end of Nova Scotia, has held this title from very old times. It is so indicated on a Portuguese mapNote 8 · Footnote 9 : It (Fundy) was not clearly indicated by Verrazano (1524) nor in the report of Gomez (1525), who probably saw something of its eNote 9 · Footnote 10 : It is gratifying to announce that the winter of 1925-26 saw a large run of herring on this ground, where for a number of yearsNote 10 · Footnote 11 : "According to Porter C. Bliss, a thorough student of the Indian dialects, Acadie is a pure Micmac word meaning place. In Nova Note 11 · Footnote 12 : Again, Captain Smith (1614): "At the Ile of Manahigan, in 43 1/2 of Northerly latitude . . . The remarkablest isle, and mountaNote 12 · Footnote 13 : There has been some speculation as to the origin of the somewhat unusual name of this bank. The writer would note that there wNote 13 · Footnote 14 : Capt. John Smith wrote of this region: "Toward the South and Southwest of this Cape [Cape Cod] is found a long and dangerous sNote 14 · Footnote 15 : 'The earliest record of this name (Saint Georges Shoal) that the writer has found appears upon a map discovered in the libraryNote 15 · Footnote 16 : "Pedro Reinel, a Portuguese pilot of much fame" (Herrera) made a map in 1505 showing Sable Island, feared and dreaded by all f