Brown Bank

Brown Bank lies off southwestern Nova Scotia, near the approaches to the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Its shallows are an important spawning ground for cod and haddock, and currents form a partial circulating gyre around the bank. Cod, haddock and cusk are among the fish found here, while deeper water borders the fishing grounds. The bank belongs to the western Scotian Shelf, exposed to the Atlantic beyond the shelter of the coast.