White Island Ground.  This is ESE from White Island, from which its inner edge is distant 1/4 mile and the outer edge about 4 miles.  Of triangular outline, it is widest at the outer end.  It is very broken and uneven and has depths from 6 to 30 fathoms.  In some places the bottom is gravelly, but on the shoal it is sharp, broken rocks.  The small, rocky spots are known by other names, such as Browns Head Ground (a herring ground in June), where the fishermen catch a few rock cod.  The sandy bottom furnishes good fares of haddock in May and June.  “Bobber trawling” is the usual method used here in June.  This ground is fished mainly by small boats and sloops using hand lines and trawls.

Steamboat Ground.  Seven miles WSW. from Monhegan Island; it is 3 miles long, NE. and SW, and 1/2 mile wide.  Its bottom is broken with patches of rocks.  Depths are from 25 to 50 fathoms, the shoalest 20 fathoms.  This is fished by hand lines and trawls mainly by craft from New Harbor.  Cod are found here the year around but are most abundant in the fall.  Haddock are present all the spring and fall; hake through the summer months; pollock in the fall.  Cusk are most abundant in the spring.  A certain amount of lobster fishing is done here.

Inner and Outer Boutens (Bootlegs).  The inner ground lies 3 miles SW. from Monhegan Island.  It is about 1 mile long.  NE. and SW., by 1/4 mile wide.  It has a sharp, rocky bottom, shoalest in the center, where are 25 fathoms, sloping gradually southwest and falling off suddenly on the northeast side to the mud in 60 fathoms on the edges.  Cod, haddock, and cusk are here the year around.  Hake occur in summer on the muddy edges.  It is a fairly good lobster ground on the shoal.  The Outer Bouten lies 1/2 mile SW. of the Inner, separated from it by a deep, muddy channel.  It has a small shoal of 30 fathoms rising suddenly from the surrounding mud.  Fish and seasons of their presence are as on Inner Bouten.  Fishing on these grounds is mainly by hand line and trawl.  Marks:  The Tripod on Western Duck Island on the eastern side of the big eastern mountain of Camden:  Black Head just out by White Head; White Head through the “Hole in the Wall.”

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.

Seguin Sou’Sou’West Ground.  This ground lies SSW. from the western part of Seguin Island, the center distant 4 miles.  It is a rocky shoal, 1/2 mile long by 200 yards wide, with a 1/2-acre shoal in the center.  Depths are 7 to 14 fathoms.  This is evidently a SSW continuation of the Hill Ground.  It is fished by small boats for rock cod by hand-lining.  Trawling is done in March for cod, and this is also a cod ground in April.  It is both a small-boat and a vessel ground and is a lobster ground the year around.  Marks:  Elwells Rock touching the western side of Seguin, and Fullers Rock touching the southern part of Bald Head.