Major fishing grounds of the world?

Answer 1

Fishing Grounds of the Western North Atlantic (Gulf of Maine, Bay of Fundy and offshore Canadian Fishing Banks) and their fisheries as of 1929. (In alphabetical order) For more about each of these grounds, go to http://penbay.org/wrich/fgotgom01.html Source: Walter Rich, United States Bureau of Fisheries, 1929.

Abner Ground

Acre, The

Allens Shoal

Andrews Shoal

Apron The

Artimon Bank

Baker's Island Ridge

Bald Ridges

Bank Comfort

Banks Ground

Banquereau

Bantam

Barley Hill Ground

Barnum Head Grnd

Bay of Fundy

Beaver Harbor

Ben's Ground

Big Ridge (Doggetts Ridge)

Big Ridge (Cashes)

Black Island Ground

Black Ledges Grnd

Blue Clay

Blue Ground

Blue Hill Ground

Boar Head Ground

Boon Island Rock Ground

Bounties, The

Boutens, Inner and Outer

Brewers Spot

Broken Ground

Broken Ground

Broken Ridges

Browns Bank

Bulkhead Rips

Bumbo, Outer and Inner

Burnt Island Inner Ridge

Burnt Island Outer Ridge

Bull Ground

Campobello

Canso

Cape Porpoise Pks

Cards Reef

Cashes Bank

Cashes Ridge, East

Cashes NW Ridge

Cashes Big Ridge

Channel

Clarks Ground

Clay Bank

Clay Ridge

Coast Nova Scotia

Cod Ledges

Cod Ridge

Cove (S.E. Jeffreys)

Cove (W. Jeffreys)

Cow Ground

Crab Bank

Crie Ridges

Cusk Ridge

Davis Bank

Deckers Shoal

Doggetts Ridge

Drunken Ledge (Drunkers)

Duck Island Ridges

Dump, The

Eagle Island Ground

Eagle Ridge

Eastern Shoal Water, Cape Ann

East Side Cape Cod

Egg Rock Broken Ground

Elbow, The

Enochs Shoal

Fifty-five Fathom

Fippenies

Fire Ground

Flat Ground

Flat Ledge

Forty-five Fathom

Franklin Ground

Freemans Ground

Gannet Rock

Garden, The

Georges Bank

German Bank

Gilkey Ground

Grand Manan

Grand Manan Bank

Gravel Bottom

Gravelley

Great Ledge

Great Rip

Green Ground

Green Island Ridge

Grumpy

Gully, The

Haddock Nubble

Hake Ground

Handspike Ground

Harris Ground

Harts Ground

Harvey Blacks Ridge

Hatchell Ground

Head and Horns

Henry Gallants Ridge

Henry Marshalls

Henrys Rock

Hill Ground

Howard Nunans Ridge

Hue and Cry

Ingalls Shoal

Inner Bank

Inner and Outer Boutens

Inner Breaker

Inner and Outer Bumbo

Inner Fall

Inner Grounds

Inner Horse Reef

Inner Kettle

lnner Schoodic Ridge

Ipswich Bay

Isle au Haute (Canada)

Inner Sandy Cove

Jeffreys Bank

Jeffreys Ledge

Jerry Yorks Ridge

Joe Ray Ground

John Dyers Ridge

Johns Head Ground

Jones Ground

Kettle Bottom, Outer

Kettle Bottom, Inner

Klondike

Laisdells Ground

Lambo

La Have

La Have Ridges

Lightons

Little Hill Ground

Little Georges

Little Jeffrey

Little La Have

Long Hill Ground

Lukes Rock

Lurcher Shoal

Machias Seal Island

Madisons Spot

Marblehead Bank

Martins Ground

Massachusetts Bay

Matinic Bank

Matinic Ooze

Matinicus SSW

Maurice Lubees Ridge

McIntire Reef

Middle Bank

Middle Ground

Middle Ridge

Middle Shoal

Minerva Hub

Misaine Bank

Mistaken Ground

Monhegan Inner SSE

Monhegan Outer SSE

Monhegan Southeast

Monhegan Inner SSW

Monhegan Outer SSW

Monhegan Western Ground

Morris Ledge

Mosers Ledge

Mount Desert Inner Ridge

Mount Desert Outer Ridge

Mud Hake Grounds

Murray Hole

Murre Hub

Mussel Shoal

Nantucket Shoals

Newfound Ground (Fundy)

Newfound Ground (near Mount Desert Island)

New Ledge

New Meadows Channel

Nipper Ground

North Shore of Nova Scotia

Northwest Ledge

0ld Egg Rock

Old Jeffrey

Old Mans Pasture

Old Orchard Ground

Old Ripper

Old Southeast

Ornes Ground

Otter Island Reef

Outer Bumbo

Outer Boutens

Outer Crab Ledge

Outer Ground

Outer Horse Reef

Outer Kettle

Outer Schoodic Ridge

Outer Shoal

Pasture

Passamaquoddy Bay grounds

Peters Bank

Petersons Ground

Phelps Bank

Pigeon Ground

Platts Bank

Pollock Hub

Pollock Rip

Potato Patch

Prairie

Quaco Ledges

Quereau

Ridge, The Big

Ridge, East Cashes

Ridge, North Georges

Ridge, Northwest Cashes

Ridge, South Fippenies

Ridge, Three-dory

Ripplings

Rock Cod Ledge

Rose and Crown

Roseway

Saddleback Reef

Sagadahoc

Salmon Netting Ground

Sand Shoal

Sandy Cove

Scandinavian Bank

Scantum

Seal Island Ground

Seguin Ground

Seguin Hub

Seguin Ridge

Seguin SSW

Shoal Ground

Shell Ground

Si's Spot

Skate Bank

Snipper Shin

Soundings

Southeast

Southeast Ground

Southeast Jeffreys

Southeast Ledge

Southeast Rip

Southeast Rock

Southern Head Reef

South Shoal

Southwest Ground

Southwest Rock

Southwest Ledges

Spencer Island

Steamboat Ground

Stellwagen Bank

Summer Hake Ground

Tag Ground

Tanta

Temple Ledge

Ten Acre

Three-dory Ridge

Tibbett's Ledge

Tillies Bank

Tobins Bank

Toothaker Ridge

Tower Ground

Towhead Ground

Tracadie

Trinidad

Trinity Shoal

Wells Bay

Western Bank

Western Egg Rock

Western Point Ridge

Western Reef

Western Ridge

White Head Grounds

White Island Ground

Wildcat Ridge

WNW Rips

Wolves

Wolves Bank

Wood Island Ground

Winker Ground

Answer 2

There are four great and important fishing areas in the world. The major fishing areas are:

the North west Pacific-seas bordering central and north-em Japan, northern China, Korea and northeastern Russia

the Northwest Atlantic coast of Newfoundland and New England

the Northeast Atlantic comprising shallow waters off the European coast extending from the Barents Sea in the north to the Bay of Biscay

the Northeast Pacific from Alaska to California