Still vital, still picturesque, New England's fishing communities have played a special role in American history. Seventeenth-century fishermen on Maine's outer islands saved the pilgrims from starvation; eighteenth-century cod fishermen helped to build America's earliest towns; nineteenth-century whalers from Nantucket and New Bedford gave the nation its first great fortunes. The fishermen's fierce sense of independence helped inspire the American Revolution.
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