Assertion: halibut | /r/HasProperty | plentiful
Facets:
value: on browns bank
type: LOCATION
value: on the seal island ground
type: LOCATION
value: in temperatures
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: And there is no reason to suppose that halibut ever were plentiful anywhere in the western side of the Atlantic in temperatures much higher than about 46°-47°, for while the bottom water warms locally to 50°-52° on Georges Bank in summer, and to 52°-59° on Nantucket Shoals, it was only during the winter and spring that there ever was any regular fishing for halibut on either of these grounds.
text: And fishermen said the appearance of a school of halibut soon drove away the cod and haddock, in the days when halibut were still plentiful on the shoaler banks.
text: Now forced to go further afield, the fishing fleet found that halibut were plentiful on the Seal Island ground; on Browns Bank; and in the Eastern Channel or gully that separates the latter from Georges Bank (localities which supplied the New York and Boston markets for the next decade).