Clarks Ground.  This lies SSE. from White head 4 1/2 miles (just inside the Bulkhead) and has depths from 6 to 14 fathoms over a rocky bottom.  Here are very heavy rips on the ebb tide.  This is a good summer ground for pollock, cod, and halibut, and it is a good herring-netting ground in the season.

Southern Head Reef.  The chain of reefs extending S from White Head Island is all good ground in summer for cod and for pollock, also, when the herring schools are on this ground.  Currents are very heavy here.  The ledges that make up this reef are more or less connected.  Among these are Brazil Shoal, Tinker, Inner Diamond, Outer Diamond, Crawleys, Rans, Proprietor (Foul Ground), and the Old Proprietor.  While virtually all this reef is pollock ground, Crawleys and Rans perhaps furnish the best fishing.

Gravelly.  Lying about 5 or 6 miles Se. by S. from White Head, this piece of bottom has about 25-fathom depths over a rocky bottom.  This is a cod and pollock ground in their season.  While an occasional halibut is taken here in summer.  Heavy tide rips occur here also.

The Soundings.  Mentioned elsewhere as a herring ground, these lie outside the Bulkhead Rips 8 or 9 miles Se. from White Head.  There are 30 or 40 fathoms of water here over a rock bottom, where pollock and cod are found in good number in July, August, and September, and a certain amount of halibut in summer.

Bulkhead Rips, also called The Ripplings.  This is a long rocky barrier rising sharply from the deep water about it to depths of from 12 to 20 fathoms.  Here are found cod, haddock, hake, and pollock in abundance from June 1 to October 31.  Apparently all are feeding on the small herring, so numerous in this vicinity at this season.  Virtually no haddock are found on the grounds in the near neighborhood of Grand Manan in winter.  The Ripplings were formerly one of the principal fishing grounds of the herring netters but of late years have been less productive.

Cards Reef.  The depths here are from 28 to 30 fathoms, over rocks, and the ground lies 3 miles S. by E. from the Old Proprietor and 9 miles from White Head.  This is a cod and haddock ground from June to November.

Gannet Rock.  This lies east of the Murre Ledges.  All about it is good ground in from 40 to 70 fathoms over a hard bottom.  Cod are found here in good number from March to May, and halibut are taken here from March to May, inclusive.

Southeast Ground and Gravel Bottom.  These lie S. of Seal Island, forming an extensive piece of fairly level ground extensive piece of fairly level ground.  The western part bears a little E. of S. and the eastern part about ESE. from the island.  It is about 5 or 10 miles in diameter.  While this is really but one piece of ground, the eastern part is called the Southeast Ground and the western part, from the nature of its bottom, the Gravel Bottom.  The eastern portion is muddy and has 40 to 60 fathoms.  The western has 35 to 40 fathoms.  It is a good cod ground in winter and spring.  Haddock are present from November to March, inclusive; hake in summer.  Fishing is done mainly by trawling by sloops and vessels.