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Wolffish? OK, but what about halibut? From Bigelow's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine.........
" ....contemporary writers (early 1800's) described them as extremely numerous in MA bay and along Cape Cod"
"....halibut congregated in the winter in the gully between the tip of Cape Cod and Stellwagen bank....."
" ...a party of equal size (4) landed 13,000 lbs off Cape Cod in three weeeks"
" They were taken in great plenty on Nantucket shoals...."
"...we knew of 25-30 halibut, ranging from 40-110 lbs....caught within 1-3 miles of land.......in 1930, in 10 -15 fathoms of water."
".....the heaviest one was 401 lbs taken NEAR RACE POINT, Cape Cod, in JULY 1849."
To think, without trawlers and trotlines we could have been fishing for, and catching, 50-700 lb flatfish, within the sight of land, winter and summer.
Boy this deal sucks.
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