Monhegan Inner Sou’Southeast Ground.  This ground is SSE from Monhegan Light.  It is circular in form and 1/14 miles across.  The center is 5 miles fro the light.  Depths are from 30 to 50 fathoms, the shoalest water being on the eastern part, the shoal has a broken and rocky bottom, but the rest of the ground is gravelly and muddy.  The principal fishes taken are cod and cusk in the spring, summer and fall.  Very few haddock are found here.  Pollock are numerous in the fall, when they are taken by hand lining.  Hake are abundant in September and October.  June is the best fishing month, except when the squid strike the ground in the fall.  This is mainly a small boat ground, fished by trawls, hand lines and an increasing number of gill nets.

Monhegan Outer Sou’Southeast.  Three miles outside the Inner Ground on the same bearing and similar in size and form.  The bottom is rocky and muddy or of hard clay.  The depths are from 35 to 55 fathoms.  The same species are found here as on Inner Sou’Southeast and at the same seasons, and in addition, hand lining is done for cod in August and September.

Blue Ground.  This is Se 1 1/2 E from Monhegan, distant 14 miles; E 1 1/2 S from Portland Lightship 45 miles, and SW from Matinicus Rock 9 miles to southern Edge.  Fishermen usually take the Monhegan bearing [12] for their starting point.  This ground has a small shoal in the center, having 28 to 30 fathoms, from which the bottom slopes off to 45 and 60 fathoms on the edges.  The shoal is broken and rocky, bu the deep water is over a level gravelly bottom.  This ground is circular in form and about 2 miles across.  It is both a small-boat and vessel ground, larger craft operating here mainly in the fall.  Hake are found here in large numbers in summer and fall; cusk are taken in the deep water the year around but are most abundant in January.  Cod are here the year around, the largest school occurring in February and March.

Monhegan Southeast Ground.  This ground lies Se from Monhegan Island, the center distant 12 miles.  This is nearly circular, 3 miles in diameter.  The bottom is so broken that depths may vary much within a short distance, but depths are from 35 to 75 fathoms over a bottom of rocks, gravel and mud.  Fishing is by trawl and handline.  It is good cod ground from April to July; haddock are taken in December and hake in summer on the edges in 50 to 60 fathoms.

Hill Ground.  This ground is SSW 9 miles from Matinic:  between 3 and 4 miles long NE and SW and some 2 miles wide.  The shoalest part has 35 fathoms and a rocky bottom.  From this it slopes gradually to a depth of 50 fathoms over a bottom of mixed gravel, rocks and mud.  Its best fishing is for hake, using both hand lines and trawls.