Connecticut Water Trails Association
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Connecticut Water Trails Program
History Of Connecticut's Water Trails
Connecticut and The Sea
Connecticut Fish & Ships
Noank
The shoreline town of
Noank plays a huge role in Connecticut’s watery history.
Noank in the 1890s supplied more than half of the Connecticut
catch of lobsters and its fishermen helped start major fisheries far
from Connecticut waters.
Farming The
Sound
The
oystering industry is also one of Connecticut’s agricultural success
stories. From the early Native Americans to the mid to late-19th
century, oysters were the hamburger of their day and Norwalk oystermen
were among the nation’s most successful.
At the turn of the 20th Century Connecticut could boast
of having the largest fleet of steam powered oyster boats in the world,
with many of those boats built in Connecticut
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Noank
at one time in the 1800’s was the largest fishing port between Boston
and New York. There were a hundred men lobstering out of there in 1898-
1899, schooners and smacks from here and Mystic settled in Pensacola in
the wintertime and Key West,
Savanna, and other warm ports.