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| New England Coast | credit: NOAA |
New England's coastal states include Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
The region is bordered the Canadian Maritimes to the North and the Mid Atlantic states to the south.
Coastal New England is famous for its fishing ports, coastal villages, rocky shorelines, and nautical art.
Coastal New England is popular among vacationers, tourists, and newlyweds. The region has an excellent selection of hotels, vacation rentals, bed and breakfasts, inns, shops, taverns, and restaurants.
Coastal New England is also famous for its boating culture. Several boat configurations that originated in the region have become popular around the nation. Sailboats are also very popular and are often found in ports throughout New England.
Coastal New England holds potential as a major producer of offshore wind power. Near Connecticut, the Block Island Wind Farm was the first of its kind in the U.S. Off the coast of Massachusetts, the Vineyard Wind 1 project will include 62 wind turbines with potential to generate 800 megawatts of power annually.
New England Seafood
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| Maine Lobsters |
New England is world famous for its lobsters, mussels, fish, and other seafood. Much of New England's seafood is available locally (in season).
Other fish and shellfish are processed and shipped to American markets or exported to other nations.
Types of saltwater fish that are commonly landed in New England's coastal ports include Atlantic cod, Atlantic haddock, Atlantic pollock, hake, whiting, yellowtail flounder, winter flounder, fluke, monkfish, Acadian redfish, spiny dogfish, scup, weakfish, black sea bass, bluefish, and others.
New England is also famous for wild caught shellfish. New England fishermen produce catches of American lobsters, coldwater shrimp, sea scallops, quahog clams, surf clams, soft-shelled clams, oysters, blue mussels, and other shellfish.
Aquaculture is another important maritime industry in New England.
Aquaculturists produce oysters, clams, scallops, seaweed, and other products.
New England seafood cuisine is characterized by clam chowder, baked cod or haddock, fried soft shelled clams, lobster rolls, clam bakes, traditional oyster recipes, and other seafood dishes.
