Vessels operating on Cashes Bank range in size from 15 to 50 tons, principally from Maine ports, with a fair number of them from Gloucester and Boston, especially in winter.  Of late years a few gill-netters have fished here, and these craft are using these grounds in steadily increasing numbers.

A comparatively little known and apparently as yet unnamed ridge lies E. by S. 15 miles from the buoy on Cashes Ledge, which is reported to be good fishing ground, especially for cod and cusk.  With both species present here the year around, the cod is said to be most abundant in April and May:  and the cusk, as is the rule on these outlying ridges, appears in largest numbers in March and April.  Haddock seem to be somewhat rare here.

This ridge lies in a Se. and NW. direction, extending somewhat indefinitely but for at least 10 miles by about 3 miles in width.  On the ridge the bottom is broken—­a hard bottom of black gravel, which usually means a good fishing spot—­the depths here being from 85 to 90 fathoms.  There are numerous muddy spots between these harder pieces of ground where soundings run to 100 fathoms or slightly more.  The surrounding bottom is mostly of mud, and the depths average from 100 to 125 fathoms.  There are a number of pieces of gravelly hard ground in the vicinity, each of which probably would furnish equally good fishing for cod and cusk at the same seasons as on the ridge.

Due E. from the buoy on Ammens Rock about 12 miles lies a ridge that rises from the 100 to 120 fathom depths about it to a depth of about 80 fathoms over a bottom of broken ground, mud, and shells.  This shoaler piece is some 3 miles long.  N. by E. and S. by NW., by 1 mile wide.  It furnishes good fishing for cod, hake, and cusk in the spring, April being the best season.

A ridge lying NW. of Cashes Bank and nearly parallel with the main bank, only separated by a narrow deep channel, is about 7 miles long by 1 1/2 miles wide.  The species and the seasons are the same here as on Cashes Bank.

Big Ridge (near Cashes Bank).  This is a broken and rocky piece of bottom running from the tip of the southeastern part of the ground, at about 10 miles S. from the buoy on Ammens Rock and about 82 miles Se. 1/2 S. from the lightship at Portland, to a point about 20 miles S. by E. from the buoy named.  Its length is not to be stated definitely, and it is probably greater than here shown.  The width averages about 1 1/2 to 2 miles.  Depths are from 65 to 80 fathoms and more, increasing gradually as it goes away from the main bank.  The species and their seasons of abundance here are as on Cashes Bank.  Perhaps this is more of a cod and cusk ground than is the main part of Cashes Bank, the cusk being particularly abundant during March and April.  Halibut also are found here in May and June in from 50 to 60 fathoms of water.  A considerable amount of the fish shown in the table of the catch from the area included in Cashes Bank may very well have come from this piece of ground.