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Commercial Fishing

New Hampshire has roughly 18 miles of coastline and over 400 years of N.H. fishing communities and traditions. Commercial fishing includes groundfishing, small gillnetting operations, inshore and offshore lobster fishing, scalloping and suf clamming. Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) are another species landed at New Hampshire ports. A fishery in the Gulf of Maine exists with annual landings valued around $6,000,000 annually.

New Hampshire Fish & Lobster Festival

The New Hampshire Fish & Lobster Festival celebrates local seafood harvests. The event allows visitors to tour local fishing boats, taste freshly landed local seafood prepared by top chefs, see exhibits about the Gulf of Maine ecosystem, learn to identify and prepare local fish and more.

The festival is a made possible thru a collaboration between the Prescott Park Arts Festival, City of Portsmouth Fishing Industry Committee, UNH Sea Grant, Seacoast Local, Seacoast Eat Local, and Slow Food Seacoast.

For more information, visit www.prescottpark.org

Hampton Beach Seafood Festival

The Hampton Beach Seafood Festival showcases 55 of the Seacoast's top restaurants serving an abundance of mouthwatering New England seafood. The event features 39,000 square feet of covered tent space where 80 Arts & Crafts vendors offer locally made products. Local merchants offering end-of-the-season sales are located nearby.

The Hampton Beach Seafood Festival has become the largest non-spectator event held in the state of New Hampshire. The three day festival draws crowds of tourists and locals alike with attendance currently estimated as exceeding 150,000.

For more information, visit www.hamptonbeachseafoodfestival.com