Green Bank

Green Bank is one of the submerged banks south of Newfoundland, between the greater Grand Bank and St. Pierre Bank. Its cold waters support Atlantic cod, among the fish that drew European vessels to the Newfoundland banks. French crews developed an offshore fishery in the later sixteenth century, salting cod on board for markets across the ocean. The banks are separated by deeper channels, but form part of a broad fishing ground beneath the open Atlantic.